The CEO of Nvidia claimed in an interview with news.com that Intel's aim in forecasting its entry into the discrete graphics market with its Larrabee project is an attempt to 'cast a shadow' over his firm's business.

Jen-Hsun Huang told the wire that Larrabee was just an item on a Powerpoint slide, and was devised as a marketing plan to spoil Nvidia's business. He said that Larrabee was delayed two years since Intel first talked about it and that if it could, it would delay it for another four years to put 'a cloud' over him.

He said Intel built products in their factories that people didn't want and stuffed them down customers' throats but the whole market has changed and no-one believes that faster CPUs and more memory is important these days. He said he saw a stage where minimalistic PCs as thin as paper, and with one chip were the future, with the display being the costliest item.Intel, he said, was selfish and wanted to dominate the market with only one processor in a PC, made by itself. But, he vowed, Nvidia wasn't going to go away despite predictions of Nvidia's death.

He claimed people would still be predicting Nvidia's death in 10 years time. Moore's Law worked well for Nvidia customers but suggested that Moore's Law was the enemy of customers elsewhere, suggesting that the move to multicores was no real benefit to technology.

Chips such as the Atom CPU and presumably Via's forthcoming Isaiah chip would be 'good enough' for most people. X

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