Re: AMD vs Intel - Ghz & performance question

On Mon, 23 Jan 2006 13:32:46 -0800, David Kanter wrote:

>> You could say that Nvidia is partisan to AMD. That can only be prooved
>> if Intel came out with a competing SLI chipset.
>
> No, actually Jen-Hsun Huang already said it, what's good for AMD is
> good for Nvidia.
>
>> But so far there's no
>> Intel chipset capable of SLI yet, despite the fact that Intel and
>> Nvidia swapped patents in that announcement above. So one should think
>> that an Intel SLI chipset should've emerged by now. I can only guess
>> the reason there isn't one now is because Intel can't get any better
>> performance out of their chipset's SLI than Nvidia can.
>
> LOL. Do you realize how long it takes to design a chipset?

LOL, not nearly as long as a processor. Without a chipset a processor is
less than useful.

> Besides, Intel is strictly in the high volume business for x86 chipsets;

Seems Intel's strategy leaves something to be desired.

> they prefer to leave ultra high performance to their partners (IBM for
> servers, possibly nvidia for desktop).

....or perhaps IBM (and possibly nVidia) have no other choice?

--
Keith
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