Intel dismisses Nvidia

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DailyTech - Intel Sheds Light on "Larrabee", Dismisses NVIDIA CUDA

Intel says CUDA will be nothing but a footnote in computer history

Intel and NVIDIA compete in many different ways. The most notable place we see competition between the two companies is in chipset manufacturing. Intel and NVIDIA also compete in the integrated graphics market where Intel’s integrated graphics chips lead the market. NVIDIA started competing with Intel in the data processing arena with the CUDA programming language. Intel’s Pat Gelsinger, co-general manager of Intel’s Digital Enterprise Group, told Custom PC that NVIDIA’s CUDA programming model would be nothing more than an interesting footnote in the annals of computing history.
According to Gelsinger, programmers simply don’t have enough time to learn how to program for new architectures like CUDA. Gelsinger told Custom PC, “The problem that we’ve seen over and over and over again in the computing industry is that there’s a cool new idea, and it promises a 10x or 20x performance improvements, but you’ve just got to go through this little orifice called a new programming model. Those orifices have always been insurmountable as long as the general purpose computing models evolve into the future.”

heh good stuff... the battle rages on.. competition is good for the consumer

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True.....but sometimes the bickering really hurts the consumer......how much happier would enthusiasts be with a legit, and working SLI on an INTEL system.

As some point, all this silliness needs to stop.........cuz people's money is running out, and at some point these companies are going to pay for the frequent upgrade/marginal improvement releases.