Comments on: Analyst: Intel's Larrabee chip needs reality check

Intel's future Larrabee graphics chip is an audacious project that faces very entrenched, capable foes, according to a report issued by Collins Stewart analyst Ashok Kumar.

[i_made_this]

"We underestimated ATI with respect to their product," said Nvidia's Montrym in August. "We've looked very closely at this, and we know there are certain things we can do better." One gets the sense that, public comments aside, Nvidia seems far more concerned by the speed at which AMD is perfecting the combined AMD/ATI Fusion than with the potential threat from Intel's Larrabee.

[i_made_this]

"We underestimated ATI with respect to their product," said Nvidia's Montrym in August. "We've looked very closely at this, and we know there are certain things we can do better." One gets the sense that, public comments aside, Nvidia seems far more concerned by the speed at which AMD is perfecting the combined AMD/ATI Fusion than with the potential threat from Intel's Larrabee.

[David Gerard]

It's not like Intel don't know how to write vector operation number crunchers - c.f. Itanium, which was a failure on the desktop but has a comfortable (if not huge) niche powering rather a lot of supercomputers. Heck, this might make back some of the money they've spent on that.