Nvidia CEO "Not Afraid" of CPU-GPU Hybrids

J. Dzhugashvili writes "Is Nvidia worried about the advent of both CPUs with graphics processor cores and Larrabee, Intel's future discrete graphics processor? Judging by the tone adopted by Nvidia's CEO during a financial analyst conference yesterday, not quite. Huang believes CPU-GPU hybrids will be no different (and just as slow) as today's integrated graphics chipsets, and he thinks people will still pay for faster Nvidia GPUs. Regarding Larrabee, Huang says Nvidia is going to 'open a can of whoop-ass' on Intel, and that Intel's strategy of reinventing the wheel by ignoring years of graphics architecture R&D is fundamentally flawed. Nvidia also has some new hotness in the pipeline, such as its APX 2500 system-on-a-chip for handhelds and a new platform for VIA processors."

Intel?

[icydog]

Did I hear that correctly? NVidia is going to beat Intel in the GPU department? What a breaking development!

In other news, Aston Martin makes better cars than Hyundai!

Translation: "nVidia needs a better top manager."

[Futurepower(R)]

"Huang says Nvidia is going to 'open a can of whoop-ass' on Intel..."

This is a VERY SERIOUS problem for the entire world. There are apparently no people available who have both technical understanding and social sophistication.

Huang is obviously ethnic Chinese. It is likely he is imitating something he heard in a movie or TV show. He certainly did not realize that only ignorant angry people use that phrase.

Translating, that phrase, and the boasting in general, says to me: "Huang must be fired. nVidia needs a better top manager."