Nvidia boss lashes out at Intel

 

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By Stuart Turton

Posted on 11 Apr 2008 at 08:13

Nvidia's chairman has lashed out at Intel, calling the company's integrated graphics "a joke".

The comments, reported in DailyTech, clearly indicate Nvidia's unease at Intel's growing interest in the graphics market which has traditionally been its stronghold.

Speaking on a conference call to analysts, Nvidia boss Jen-Hsun Huang insisted that even a ten-fold increase in the performance of Intel's integrated graphics would still leave the chip giant lagging behind Nvidia in terms of performance, before suggesting his company was "going to open a can of whoop ass" on Intel.

When questioned about claims that Nvidia drivers were responsible for the majority of Vista crashes, he responded: "Nvidia has to support several new titles every week... 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?"

He also had a pop at Intel's new discrete graphics offering, Larrabee, which in a moment of playground genius he referred to as "Laughabee".

He went on to cast doubt on Intel's performance claims for the product, claiming much of that performance will depend on quality drivers he doesn't think they can create.

We're waiting for Intel to get back to us with comment. Hopefully it'll have something to do with the comparative size of its dad to Nvidia's.