http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/ Engadget Comments for http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 10:08AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 10:12AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 10:51AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/
NVidia seems to have a whole different outlook on this situation. It seems to me they would be designing their CPUs to work with their own specialized GPUs and motherboards. Look at the hype for Ion already. That's going to be huge, and it is just the first step.

NVidia can compete where AMD failed.]]>Mar 4th 2009 11:49AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/
What I mean is that when the Athlon XP and Athlon 64 started to kick the crap out the the Pentium 4 and it's NetBurst architecture, the new CEO of AMD at the time, Hector Ruiz, decided to slash their R&D budget heavily. Claiming that they didn't need to worry about spending so much on new processor design and fabrication. This lead the company to having nothing ready to compete against the Pentium M. And once Intel realized this they moved in for the kill by taking the Pentium M lessons and building the Core processor.

If AMD hadn't cut their R&D budget they probably would have been able to get things like the Phenom and 32nm fabrication out quicker. Perhaps allowing them to avoid the current PR disaster of the Phenom.]]>Mar 4th 2009 12:50PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 5th 2009 9:01PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 10:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/
Or comedy Cyrix option!?]]>Mar 4th 2009 10:14AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 10:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 10:53AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 10:57AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 6:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 10:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/
I second that]]>Mar 4th 2009 10:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/
If you don't have a license to x86, then you can't legally make x86 CPUs.

But, I could actually see Intel doing it. Why, you ask? Well, AMD's not in the greatest of shape, and if they go out of business, it leaves Intel as the only MAJOR x86 player, opening them up to serious antitrust stuff. Intel doesn't want to be the only major x86 player simply because of all the legal stuff they'll have to deal with if they are.]]>Mar 4th 2009 10:35AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 10:19AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 10:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/
I'd buy a halfway decent NVIDIA CPU if it was coupled to a decent GPU and could do hardware accelerated High Def. Can you say XBMC STB? If the ION won't get off the ground with an ATOM and if no one makes the VIA ION platform then sure why not NVIDIA? Do they have the rights to build one is the question....]]>Mar 4th 2009 11:11AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 5th 2009 1:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 10:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 10:34AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/(BTW I'm not really complaining. Kinda an Apple fan myself, just not of the Clak and iLuver caliber :p)]]>Mar 4th 2009 10:45AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 10:46AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 10:52AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 11:20AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/
go, go Nvidia!]]>Mar 4th 2009 10:59AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 11:13AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 11:25AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 9:38PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 11:28AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 11:30AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 11:32AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 11:58AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 4:15PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 12:41PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 12:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 1:20PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/
I currently have a GTX285, a sweet card, but I don't know if I would trust nvidia with CPU making. The 8800 series gpu was a huge bust, their Nforce chipsets are horrible, with poor driver support and features that are buggy.

Right now Intel makes some pretty great CPU's that have a pretty good entry price point; which I believe we can thank AMD for.]]>Mar 4th 2009 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 2:33PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/
I had 2 different 8800 GTS' fail on me. Luckily it had the XFX Double Lifetime warranty, and I got them replaced both times for free. ]]>Mar 4th 2009 7:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/
Yeah, AMD has only ever played catch up. Things like dual core, and (successful) 64-bit CPUs.]]>Mar 4th 2009 1:36PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/As for the article- this is not your standard attack, the ultimate goal here is a one-chip solution. The future will be very interesting...]]>Apr 26th 2009 5:00PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 1:46PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 2:43PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 7:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/
Jen-Hsun Huang is my hero; no executive can expect any sort of career longevity when talking so much smack, but here he is.

And to agree with the people about competition making our world better: YAYYYY!!!]]>Mar 4th 2009 3:06PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/http://www.engadget.com/2009/03/04/nvidia-gets-further-up-intels-chuff-with-pledge-to-develop-an-x/Mar 4th 2009 6:05PM