Jen-Hsun Huang berates 'monopolistic' Intel - again
10 May 2008 | 23:38 BST
Larabee delayed just to wind up Huang core, blimey
NVIDIA'S MAN AT THE TOP, Jen-Hsun Huang, has been on the rampage - again.
In what we would have to classify as a 'bonkers' interview for Cnet, Huang goes off on one over Intel's plans for the graphics space. Then has a pop at Intel's marketing, Intel's monopoly, Intel's low-power CPU design, Intel's arrogance... you get the picture. You can read the full thing here.
Huang appeared prone to paranoia when discussing Larabee, Intel's much-rumoured-little-seen GPU. "Larabee is a PowerPoint slide," Huang said. "I haven't met a product on my PowerPoint slide that I don't like. You know, they're floating Larrabee out there just to put a shadow over us, cast a cloud over us. They've already slipped it two years from the time they talked about. They would love to slip it another four years and leave a cloud over me."
He also appeared to decry what he sees as Intel's desire to be market leader in every space they work in. "Intel cannot share the world with someone else. They want the world to have one processor. They don't want the world to have two processors, even if it's good for them. (The Nvidia chip) just happens to be so famous, and just happens to be so popular, and happens to be so delightful that it just really makes them upset. That's an anti-innovation feeling. That's a monopolistic feeling, right? You can't share the world with somebody else."
Throughout the interview Graphzilla's bod displays real animosity towards Chipzilla, no doubt spurred on by the latter's recent proclamation that discrete graphics, as promulgated by the former, was on a road to deadsville. With little competition from DAAMIT, Jen-Hsun appears bent on beating Intel at its own game.
A wise man who works for Nvidia once told this poor hack - if you're looking sideways, you're not looking forwards. Is Jen-Hsun in danger of walking into a l amp post?
We can't resist the opportunity to posit the question - is Nvidia getting its PR tips from...
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