CE-Oh no he didn't! Part LV: NVIDIA boss says "We're going to open a can of whoop-ass" on Intel
By Nilay Patel 
posted April 10th 2008 9:09PM
posted April 10th 2008 9:09PM
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.]
So any chance of those rumoured X86 Cpus turning up from Nvidia since AMD has dropped the ball someone has to keep Intel from ruling the universe.
who pwns the video market? oh yeah, Intel
It's about time someone challenges Intel. They have had it far to easy.....I was hoping AMD would catch up but my faith is fading fast. ;(
NVIDIA makes GPUs, Intel makes CPUs.
What's the debate here?
Wow! Looks like somebody either took really good notes at the Ballmer-Jobs school of attitude or just felt like getting in touch with their inner pissy drag queen...no offense to drag queens...or piss for that matter.
ohh - no he dein't!!!
I hope Intel gets peeved and work on their graphics drivers. My
GMA x3100 in my notebook needs a kick in the pants!! My rig at home is humbled by the 9600GT :D
Do u guys remember the ol' i740 intel..??
WOW
NVDA FTW!!
This is my kinda guy. Dude don't mess around. No wonder Nvidia's on top.
Why is anyone vaguely interested in this? Sure Intel's integrated VGA is shit but Nvidia's is also shit. Just degrees of how bad they are. The only integrated VGA that can sorta cope with any kind of game is ATI's 780G (integrated 3450 VGA) and thats for AMD chips only.
come on nvidia. i bought quite a bit of NVDA stock about a year ago... win win win... make me money!
I will bet money that he plays a lot of games like Battlefield, Crysis, WOW, etc.
he seems like that cool teacher that hangs out with you on the weekends kicking your ass in Soul Calibur.
What Nvidia said is absolutely true. Intel's graphics line is so freaking lousy that I vomit a little in my mouth when I think about it. Seriously, if ANYONE thinks that Intel has a chance of ever doing something more with the sad little graphics chips than render text on the screen then you really are living in another world....
I would actually be ashamed of myself about owning an Intel graphics-powered PC and all of you out there that have one should be ashamed of yourselves too.
It is NOT alright to have shared video memory, it is NOT alright to own a GMA950 piece of crap, it is NOT alright to even go close to integrated graphics and it is NOT alright for Intel to keep its fucking crap line going!
That's prooobably why they're trying to improve their graphics line and make integrated graphic hardware that's able to compete with Nvidia and ATI cards. They want to remove the card, potentially free up a bunch of watts and several of your expansion slots, and still have a computer that runs at a comparable speed. Just because it isn't out yet doesn't mean they're not working on it.
This guy reminds me of Tuco in "The Good, The Bad and The Ugly" (he is The Ugly, if that's not obvious).
What he should remember is simple: "When you have to shoot, shoot, don't talk."
I think he yelled out, "Fantastic!"
Intel entering the gaming market might seem funny to some given their current offerings... but competetion will only help with advancing technology more quickly and cause a lowering of prices when each product launches. Plus If I were in charge of Intel's new venture, I'd take this bashing as a challenge and put my high-priced engineers to the grindstone.