Apr 10
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Looks like Intel’s plans to enter the graphics space in a big way with its Nehalem and Larrabee lines strike NVIDIA CEO Jen Hsun-Huang as being rather foolish — in a conference call with analysts today, Huang said Intel’s integrated graphics offerings were “a joke,” and that even a tenfold increase in performance would put them behind NVIDIA’s current products. Huang didn’t stop there, saying that NVIDIA was “going to open a can of whoop-ass,” and that while Intel’s graphics chips were fine for running Office, they would never cut it for gamers and other demanding users. Huang kept going, responding to questions about all those driver-related Vista crashes by saying that NVIDIA had to support new games weekly while Intel’s chips aren’t ever put to the test. Actually, that’s toning it down a bit — what Huang actually said was “You already have the right machine to run Excel. You bought it four years ago… How much faster can you render the blue screen of death?” Yeah, them’s fightin’ words — you going to sit there and take it, Intel?
[Thanks, Mike A.]
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Jul 25
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digg_url = ‘http://digg.com/tech_news/CE_Oh_no_he_didn_t_Part_XLI_Sun_s_James_Eagleton_says_Microsoft_guilty_o’; In the most recent round of the Microsoft vs. Linux debate, Sun’s systems product manager James Eagleton lobs the latest volley, stating that the Redmond-based software giant’s business tactics amount to “patent terrorism,” and that the current climate it’s created is akin to a “cold war.” Eagleton goes on to offer that Sun and even IBM have much fairer approaches to patent protection which don’t go against “the spirit of innovation,” in the way he claims Microsoft’s policies do. If the dubious arrangements Microsoft has agreed upon with Novell and Linspire didn’t convince you that something was rotten in the state of Washington, comments like sour-grapes-Eagleton’s should at least make you take pause.
[Via The Inquirer]
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