Posted on Friday, February 27 2009 @ 4:37 CET by Thomas De Maesschalck
CNET had a brief interview with Intel CEO Paul Otellini, they talked about various subjects like NVIDIA, the economy and the flash memory business. You can read it
over here. Here's what Otellini has to say about NVIDIA:
Otellini said that Nvidia is not in a strong competitive position. "If you don't have a microprocessor, what else do you have to sell?" he said, countering Nvidia's claims that the industry is becoming more centered on graphics chips. "The graphics subsystem for most machines will be subsumed into the microprocessor. So what Nvidia is doing is making an argument to defend the status quo," he said. He said if you want higher performance you can buy a discrete graphics chip. "You can buy it from them or you can buy it from us," he said, referring to Intel's upcoming Larrabee graphics chip.
