hexus.net - 10/30/2009
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AMD's head of developer relations has told HEXUS he feels NVIDIA is forgetting its gaming roots and turning away from the gaming community.
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AMD believes Nvidia is no longer focusing on gaming
Fudzilla —
... at the moment," adding that it was possible to diversify without abandoning gaming. He went on to say that gamers are good people and "well rounded individuals." We're not sure whether he was referring to their physique or character. Huddy did not deny the computing potential of GPUs, but pointed out that AMD CPUs have present in the supercomputer market for a long time. He said that Nvidia was "selling pure compute" and shouldn't be going around, telling people how to use it. More here .
AMD: Nvidia Neglecting Gamers
AMDZone Frontpage —
Hexus says AMD senior dev manager, Richard Huddy thinks Nvidia is abandoning gamers. Huddy spoke to HEXUS about NVIDIA's recent GTC event, where focus lay squarely on supercomputing and GPGPU computing for academic purposes, a 180 degree flip from the previous year's Nvision event, which was focused on gamers.
"It's not like our only focus is on gaming, but it appears NVIDIA is in a kind of sneering mode towards game players at the moment," Huddy told us, adding that in his opinion, it was quite possible to diversify focus, without abandoning gamers and the gaming ...
AMD blames NVIDIA for neglecting gamers
DV Hardware —
... AMD senior manager of developer relations Richard Huddy believes NVIDIA is somewhat abandoning the gaming market with its upcoming Fermi GPU: ...
NVIDIA working to show Fermi at CES
Icrontic —
... . In a best case scenario, NVIDIA will have A2 back by the first week of December. If A2 is any good, then the very first boards will just barely make the CES window AIBs are talking about. That means retail availability is narrowing in on February, but it could be as late as March if the company must spin the A3 rev. What is going on? NVIDIA has stayed uncharacteristically quiet about Fermi as it toils to bring the silicon to life. Rival firm ATI is waging an unchecked “ NVIDIA is neglecting gamers ” campaign which mostly panders to the constituency, but somebody will buy it. ...
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