NVIDIA focus on low-cost, Intel-free CPUs

[TylerDurden]

NVIDIA, addressing a meeting of financial analysts, has announced plans for a new CPU platform. Currently known only as "The World's Most Affordable Vista Premium PC," the platform would incorporate an integrated graphics processor from NVIDIA alongside one of VIA's upcoming Isaiah CPUs, in a design that would cost below $45. The chip is deliberately intended to compete with Intel, for whom NVIDIA has previously supplied hardware; the latter company claims that its platform is capable of 36 gigaflops, whereas a similarly-priced Intel 945/ICH4 combination is limited to 6.4.
Also unlike the Intel hardware, the NVIDIA platform supports DirectX 10 rendering and Blu-ray decoding. It is further said to be powerful enough, as its name implies, to run Windows Vista Home Premium, where many low-cost platforms are limited to either Home Basic or Windows XP. No release dates have been revealed.

The move is seen as a deliberate snub of Intel, whose integrated graphics chipsets were recently called "a joke" by NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsun Huang.

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[PrivateParts]

I dont know what happen with intel and nvidia. I thought they had partnered up, but it seems like they have been at each others throats lately.

[TylerDurden]

Nvidia only acquired Ageia in February, but the company has already got the company’s PhysX API working on GeForce cards and demonstrated it in action.

Nvidia told the audience at its recent analysts day that the conversion of the PhysX API into CUDA (Nvidia’s technology for programming a GPU with C) had been completed, and also showed off a particle demo that was apparently similar to Intel’s Nehalem physics demo from IDF 2008. However, Tom’s Hardware claims that while the Nehalem demo managed 50,000 - 60,000 particles at 15-20fps,

Nvidia’s demo on a GeForce 9800 card achieved the same level of particles at an amazing 300fps

Ageia’s co-founder, Manju Hegde, presented the case for GPU physics against using a Core 2 Quad CPU, with a slide claiming that a GeForce 9800 GPU could process 20 times as many particles, six times as many fluid calculations, five times as many cloth simulations and five times as many soft body calculations. Nvidia was also keen to point out that it’s taken the company just a month to complete the port of PhysX into CUDA. The PhysX API supports every gaming platform out today, including the PC, Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and Wii.

Nvidia’s director of product PR for Europe, Luciano Alibrandi, told Custom PC last month that owners of GeForce 8-series cards and above would ‘simply need to download the CUDA PhysX drivers’ when work on the port was finished. ‘Hardware acceleration will then be transparently supported for applications making use of the PhysX SDK,’ said Alibrandi, meaning that owners of GeForce 8 and 9-series card could soon be able to play CellFactor Revolution with all the cloth and oil simulations enabled.

[TylerDurden]

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Hands-on with the Asus XG Station external GPU

[Cheeto]

Intel decided they wanted in on the graphics game, too. So no nVidia is left to be either a successful but niche product catering only to the hardcore gamers (like Falcon Northwest) or they can expand and try and get more of the pie to become an even more successful company with multiple solutions for all sorts of applications to fit your needs.