Nvidia has delivered a scathing criticism of Intel’s Larrabee, dismissing the multi-core CPU/GPU as wishful thinking - while admitting it needs to catch up with AMD’s current Radeon graphics cards.
Andy Keane, general manager of the company’s GPU computing group, spoke to reporters at the company’s headquarters in Sunnyvale, California, ahead of the opening of the annual NVISION expo on Monday. “There’s an incredible amount about Larrabee that’s undefined,” explained Keane, commenting on the specifications so far released. “You can’t just say ‘it’s x86 so it’s going to solve the massively parallel computing problem.”
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1 NVIDIA talks smack, tries crow and doesn’t like it | insideHPC // Aug 25, 2008 at 9:32 am
[...] Multicore.info pointed me at an ejoyable rant at pcPRO on NVIDIA’s recent comments about Larrabee and ATI. The article starts out with Andy Keane, general manager of the company’s GPU computing group, banging on the hype Larrabee’s getting even though so much is “undefined.” [...]