Huang also attacked Intel's marketing machine. "Just because they have this enormous marketing budget. Just because they have platforms everywhere in the world. It doesn't make it right. To take on smaller companies. It's just not right."
This image of Intel as an unstoppable graphics juggernaut is what Huang takes issue with. What set him off initially was a comment from an Intel graphics and gaming technologist who said that consumers "probably won't need" discrete cards in the future. Nvidia's primary business is designing and supplying graphics chips for discrete graphics cards that go into PCs.
"We don't typically like to do this. It's just that we've been taking it and taking it and taking it. Every single frickin' day. Are you allowed to say that word? Every day all over the world. Enough is enough."
"This team [Nvidia] is like a Ferrari team. We know how to bring visual technology to life. We bring 20-30-40x the performance advantage and 27x the price/performance ratio". Even if Intel was able to deliver a 10-fold performance increase, the company would still not be able to reach catch up with Nvidia and AMD in the discrete space, Huang said.
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Oh... my... I mean... I am quite speechless actually. I never thought nVidia's CEO would go ego trip and assault Intel. I bet Hector Ruiz is laughing at the moment... Seeing Intel and nVidia bitch slapping each others...
But on serious side: This thing is extremely bad move by Huang. Not only nVidia has broken some basic guidelines of marketing ( by changing names, creating name mess for instance ) but that their CEO goes wild like this is very bad for the image of nVidia. Maybe Huang is bit stressed due nVidia's shares skydiving last weeks and economics making ominious evalutions of nVidia's money using...