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[h3]NVIDIA skeptical of Larrabee[/h3]
As Intel beavers away on bringing their discrete GPU to market, NVIDIA has chalked the Larrabee up to wishful thinking. John Mottram, chief architect for GT200-series core admitted that Intel is "not a stupid company" but remains skeptical of the performance of the final product.
"They've put a lot of people behind this, so clearly they believe it's viable. But the products on our roadmap are competitive to this thing as they've painted it. And the reality is going to fall short of the optimistic way they've painted it. As [blogger and CPU architect] Peter Glaskowsky said, the 'large' Larrabee in 2010 will have roughly the same performance as a 2006 GPU from Nvidia or ATI."
Mottram also went on to admit that NVIDIA had to work to catch up with the technology of ATi's famed 4000-series Radeons. While NVIDIA has held the single-GPU speed crown until the recent release of the Radeon 4870 X2, the stunningly-high prices of the 200-series have kept them from gaining a foothold with consumers.
[h3]Blackberry Bold launched in Canada[/h3]
Our friendly igloo-dwellers to the north are the first in the world to get their hands on the retail version of the long-awaited Blackberry Bold. Canadian mobile carrier Rogers released the beauty this weekend. Engadget has delivered a snazzy unboxing video while Americans await the September release from AT&T.
[h3]RAMBUS debuts terabyte-speed ICs[/h3]
Last year RAMBUS announced that it would be pursuing an initiative to deliver terabyte-level bandwidth for memory. Dubbed the Terabyte Bandwidth Initiative (TBI), RAMBUS hoped it could develop new memory technologies that would crush the 100GBps bandwidths we can achieve today in idealized applications like GDDR.
RAMBUS appears to have done it with the announcement of 1TBps on-chip/off-chip bandwidths. While the products are obviously in testing phases, the company hopes to commercialize their technologies and bring crazy-fast speeds to the masses.
As Intel beavers away on bringing their discrete GPU to market, NVIDIA has chalked the Larrabee up to wishful thinking. John Mottram, chief architect for GT200-series core admitted that Intel is "not a stupid company" but remains skeptical of the performance of the final product.
"They've put a lot of people behind this, so clearly they believe it's viable. But the products on our roadmap are competitive to this thing as they've painted it. And the reality is going to fall short of the optimistic way they've painted it. As [blogger and CPU architect] Peter Glaskowsky said, the 'large' Larrabee in 2010 will have roughly the same performance as a 2006 GPU from Nvidia or ATI."
Mottram also went on to admit that NVIDIA had to work to catch up with the technology of ATi's famed 4000-series Radeons. While NVIDIA has held the single-GPU speed crown until the recent release of the Radeon 4870 X2, the stunningly-high prices of the 200-series have kept them from gaining a foothold with consumers.
[h3]Blackberry Bold launched in Canada[/h3]
Our friendly igloo-dwellers to the north are the first in the world to get their hands on the retail version of the long-awaited Blackberry Bold. Canadian mobile carrier Rogers released the beauty this weekend. Engadget has delivered a snazzy unboxing video while Americans await the September release from AT&T.
[h3]RAMBUS debuts terabyte-speed ICs[/h3]
Last year RAMBUS announced that it would be pursuing an initiative to deliver terabyte-level bandwidth for memory. Dubbed the Terabyte Bandwidth Initiative (TBI), RAMBUS hoped it could develop new memory technologies that would crush the 100GBps bandwidths we can achieve today in idealized applications like GDDR.
RAMBUS appears to have done it with the announcement of 1TBps on-chip/off-chip bandwidths. While the products are obviously in testing phases, the company hopes to commercialize their technologies and bring crazy-fast speeds to the masses.
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