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By tastyratz on 1/6/2011 8:56:14 AM , Rating: 0
Because history tells me they don't right now. The ION platform was a step in the right direction but gpu's don't seem to follow in the footsteps of modern cpus at all.

This could be a venture that shows benefit towards their graphics card market if they start investing in power efficiency research.

you must mean Nvidia

By LordSojar on 1/6/2011 9:15:42 AM , Rating: 5
Power efficiency? Are you serious? Considering Tegra2 is quite possibly the most power efficient platform on the planet (at this time)... it's safe to say nVidia MIGHT know what they are doing...

I, for one, am extremely excited by this announcement. nVidia has a lot of expertise in developing ground up architectures. It's safe to assume the product that is the fruit of this project will be at least decent and not a complete failure.

ION literally has nothing to do with this endeavor. Literally...NOTHING. It's a 9400M chip designed to function with Intel's Atom CPU platform. How is a graphics chip coupled with an x86 CPU even worth mentioning in relation to this announcement? The fact you mentioned AMD is making me think you might have absolutely no clue what you are talking about. I'd like to be wrong in this instance... but I'm afraid I'm not.

nVidia is adjusting to a drastically changing market landscape. This decision is a very risky, but potentially has a huge payoff. To be able to drop Intel and AMD out of the HPC and server sector within the space of 10 years would be jaw-dropping amazing. Do I think they can do it? I think they have the ability to do it; will they? No idea. It's ambitious, high risk and ballsy. It's also very necessary to make this move now, as it has the potential to propel nVidia forward as a company. The next 5 years are going to be VERY interesting.











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