The Wall Street Journal's Don Clark goes off on the graphics trail today and has a fine old time comparing AMD and Nvidia to cars - they're Chevrolets and Fords apparently. Dash it! Then he stops comparing manufacturers of GPUs to motor cars so we'll never know what kind of car Intel is.

He does manage to speak to brash Nvidia CEO Jen-Hsen Huang, however. Jen-Hsen is, er, brash and doesn't agree with Intel's contention that it will out-integrate his company. In fact, Jen-Hsen goes further than that. Intel, he declared to Don, 'will be dead', so showing a level of animosity towards the chip giant that makes the former UK prime minister Margaret Thatcher seem like a 10-day old kitten, very pink in tooth and claw.

Nick Knupffer, who according to the Wall Street Journal is an Intel spokesman, reacts to the assertion that his firm will be dead with emollient words. 'No we won't,' he kind of says. 'There will be room for companies like Nvidia and AMD to build its stinking GPUs while we go ahead and out-integrate Nvidia,' he doesn't say, unfortunately. 'If you're comparing AMD and Nvidia to Chevrolets and to Fords, then Intel is a Rolls Royce,' he doesn't continue. 'Just get lost Jen-Hsen because we've got your number old boy,' he didn't say.

Don doesn't mention little graphics firm S3, which possibly is similar to a Tata nanocar, for all we know. X

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