Graphics card from Intel?

[notageek]

Intel has unveiled details of the chip that will spearhead its move into computer graphics.

It has revealed blueprints for the Larrabee chip that is scheduled to first appear in finished products in late 2009 or early 2010.

Larrabee will be a stand-alone graphics processor unlike the onboard chips it produces for many PC makers.

The move will bring Intel into direct competition with graphics specialists Nvidia and the ATI division of AMD.

Read here : http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/7540935.stm

nVidia responds with this article

NVIDIA says its GPUs are in fact programmable in C language

Yesterday we ran a story about details on Intel's upcoming Larrabee architecture for the graphics market. One of Intel's most important talking points when it plays up the benefits of Larrabee over NVIDIA's GPUs is the fact that NVIDIA's GPUs require developers to learn a new programming language called CUDA.

Read here : http://www.dailytech.com/NVIDIA+Clea...icle12585c.htm

[Hlingler]

NVIDIA says its GPUs are in fact programmable in C language

Programmable by whom?

Since NVidia software driver is proprietary, that's like writing a book in secret code, then saying anyone who can read/write English can read it. I'm skeptical....

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[notageek]

Nicely said