Nvidia: Larrabee is a reaction to CUDA

Nvidia responds to Pat Gelsinger’s comments about CUDA being just a ‘footnote’ in computing history
by Ben Hardwidge 21st July 2008

Intel may have put the wind up the graphics business with the development of its Larrabee graphics chip, but Nvidia reckons that Larrabee is just a reaction to what Nvidia has already achieved with its GPGPU CUDA technology. What's more, the comments from Intel's Pat Gelsinger earlier this month have also stirred up a debate about the future of multi-core programming. Nvidia's general manager of its GPU computing group, Andy Keane, told Custom PC that the high level of interest in CUDA 's causing Larrabee. Larrabee's the reaction.' He then added that 'these comments from Gelsinger; if we were not making a lot of headway do you think he'd even give us a moment's notice? No. It's because he sees a lot of this activity. The strategy is to try to position it [CUDA] as something scary and unique, and it's really not; it's something that's very accessible.'

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