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Nvidia or Intel? Which company would you side with?

Let’s not fool ourselves; all corporations are blood-sucking, vicious, cold-blooded, money-guzzling machines.

Anyway, it seems Nvidia and Intel are at each other’s throats as both are engaging in litigation against each other as well as developing competing products (Nvidia made the cuda thing, and Intel is apparently making their own graphics card known as Larrabee).

If it came down to it, which company would you go for?

Personally, I’d go with Nvidia. Intel may be a great at business and marketing, but Nvidia knows the hearts of real computer users: gamers. And I know Nvidia will cater to the likes of me.

On the other hand, they may flop. We’ll have to see.

nvidia and intel are engaged on another battlefield…and a far more important one: mobile computing. Intel last tried mobile computing when they acquired their XScale division from DEC (late 90s). They screwed that up and sold the division to Marvell. Now they know they must take another whack at it (their atom line). The PC/server market is huge, but there is no growth in that market. Mobile is where the growth is. Companies like:

nvidia (tegra-ARM based). like what’s in the new zune
qualcomm (snapdragon-ARM based). like what’s going to be in a lot of smartbooks and smartphones next year and end of this year
TI (their OMAP series-ARM based)
intel (atom-x86)

and among them, i bet on the ARM licensees above – ARM and their tech licensees get embedded/low-power processor design (it’s what they’ve always done). intel on the other hand is coming from another world (one where you plug into the wall and are not concerned with MIPs/mW).

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