Nvidia Launches Site for Intel-Nvidia Battle

[sinsear]

Nvidia:
Less QQ (comics, case designing, etc.), more PewPew (better products).

 

[dgingeri]

Intel is stifling everything.

AMD comes out with a competing cpu, they threaten motherboard manufacturers with curtailing their supply of chipsets if they make Athlon motherboards. (The Athlon vs 440BX chipset incident)

AMD comes out with another competing, an even better chip than what Intel had, and they threaten computer makers to withdraw "marketing assistance" funds if they make AMD machines. (The Athlon 64 vs Pentium 4 incident.)

Also, notice that while Intel has the lead (the year just before the Athlon came out, the year just before the Athlon 64 came out, and now while the Core i7 is king) they have a year or longer between major releases. We won't be seeing a new Intel chip until 2011 now, instead of their claimed "tick, tock" schedule. Sandy Bridge wasn't delayed because there is a problem. it was delayed because AMD won't be coming out with a competing chip until 2011, with Bulldozer, Bobcat, and Fusion.

AMD could have had the Athlon 64 out a year ahead of then they did, if they had the funds to employ enough engineers to finish it. Intel curtailing the motherboard supply of the original Athlon cost AMD sales, and kept them from competing. It's the same way now. If the Athlon 64 had sold the way it should have, and not received interference from Intel's marketing rebates, they'd have had enough engineers to get Bulldozer and Fusion done already.

Without AMD, we'd likely not see a new chip for 5-10 years.

 

[slayerz636]

honstly if they get the rights to produce the x58 then the prices should drop even more. can you say good bye 1156?

 

[hunter315]

This is just going to make nVidia look crappy too. Negative PR just hurts everyone involved, i wish that nVidia would start selling things on points that mattered not on obscure features like physx and bashing the other guys.

 

[SneakySnake]

Nvidia is one the most under the table companies ever, they're just trying to get some sympathy points from consumers. Look at what they did with Arkham Asylum - paid to get ATI locked out from the highest graphics settings. I can understand paying a developer to optimize it for your own hardware, but paying them to hurt other companies hardware is downright wrong

 

[Tomtompiper]

Smoke and mirrors folks, it's all smoke and mirrors. It's all being done to distract from the real focus at the moment, the elephant in the room. The Fermi launch is coming soon and they don't want all the attention to be on that, so lets throw a few curve balls and then have a low key launch and hope the plebs don't notice. At least the Fan-boys will buy a few cards before the benchmarks come out and give the cards the Kiss of Death. AMD should stick a couple of sardines in a 480 box and deliver it to Nvidia HQ.

 

[lordcrazex]

yay, updated news in Nvidia's blog!
i can't wait to read about Fer..mi.. Federal Trade Commission..? "stack of evidence"? Counter-suit?...
wat the... where's Fermi?!

 

[anamaniac]

It's been very entertaining reading these articles. =D

 

[jimmysmitty]

[citation][nom]dgingeri[/nom]Intel is stifling everything. AMD comes out with a competing cpu, they threaten motherboard manufacturers with curtailing their supply of chipsets if they make Athlon motherboards. (The Athlon vs 440BX chipset incident) AMD comes out with another competing, an even better chip than what Intel had, and they threaten computer makers to withdraw "marketing assistance" funds if they make AMD machines. (The Athlon 64 vs Pentium 4 incident.) Also, notice that while Intel has the lead (the year just before the Athlon came out, the year just before the Athlon 64 came out, and now while the Core i7 is king) they have a year or longer between major releases. We won't be seeing a new Intel chip until 2011 now, instead of their claimed "tick, tock" schedule. Sandy Bridge wasn't delayed because there is a problem. it was delayed because AMD won't be coming out with a competing chip until 2011, with Bulldozer, Bobcat, and Fusion. AMD could have had the Athlon 64 out a year ahead of then they did, if they had the funds to employ enough engineers to finish it. Intel curtailing the motherboard supply of the original Athlon cost AMD sales, and kept them from competing. It's the same way now. If the Athlon 64 had sold the way it should have, and not received interference from Intel's marketing rebates, they'd have had enough engineers to get Bulldozer and Fusion done already. Without AMD, we'd likely not see a new chip for 5-10 years.[/citation]

http://news.softpedia.com/news/AMD-Dell-Partnership-Isolates-System-Builders-39354.shtml

Athlon 64/X2 sold fine. In fact hey sold out. So much that AMD pushed aside the smaller vendors in faor of larger vendors like Dell. AMD couldn't produce enough chips to sell.

As for the nVidia thing, the license that Intel had with nVidia for chipsets was for FSB based CPUs. Intel had no requirement to give nVidia a QPI license and since nVidis didn't want to allow SLI they didn't. They might work it out but still, who wants a nVidia chipset for Intel or AMD? nVidias chipsets run hotter, are less stable and don't overclock as well. For a long time the only benefit they had was SLI .

Lets look at it this way: When Core 2 came out we had the P35/45 and X38/48 chipsets that were the best for Intel CPUs and overclocking/performance. At the time ATI had no real offering better than nVidia so most people went with a 8800 series. Well if they wanted SLI but wanted the better performance of a Intel chipset, they were stuck with nVidia. How is that a fair market and not anti-competative? Why should nVidia be allowed to get away with keeping a closed market?

In my eyes, nVidia is just trying to bypass everything. Why focus your entire efforts to reclaiming the GPU market? Let ATI overshadow you and stay ahead performance and technology wise. That would be like Intel just letting AMD catch up and not releasing Sandy Bridge till 2013. And Sandy bridge was moved from Q4 2010 to Q1 2011.

 

[mayne92]

Just came from reading it...seems pretty thorough...

 

[Guest]

Anyone that knows anything about graphics processors and is also aware of intel's overpriced p.o.s. processors (that are incrementally evolving with each new set that's releases) knows that nvidia is going to spank intel SOOOOO hard in the near future. Wait and see