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NVIDIA CEO Jen-Hsen Huang has polished up on his Polish, telling a local paper Poland hinges Central and Eastern Europe and is "a country of great programmers". Huang also touched on Nvidia's netbook plans, Tegra and why Intel is very, very afraid of the big bad Goblin.
Huang told Poland's Gazeta.pl, (according to Google Translate's pigeon Engrish) that Ion represented "a very dangerous situation for Intel whose main profits come from the sale of processors for both personal and work computers".
The relationship between Intel and Nvidia has been strained since February when Intel sent the Goblin a rather nasty letter threatening to revoke its cross licensing agreement.But Huang seemed unperturbed by the stagnant state of affairs, claiming "We have signed the licensing agreement for the next three years and we are confident".
Jen-Hsen swore his firm did "not want to produce processors" despite claims Nvidia "have adequate facilities and technologies" to do so. The Green queen then proceeded to blow the GPU trumpet again, saying Nvidia's technology had taken over many complex CPU calculations, something that was "in the interest of customers".
Rather cryptically, the Nvidia chief went on to say his firm would soon be "able to produce twice the netbooks for the same price", but to which netbooks he was referring and whether Huang was still haranguing on about Intel was unclear.
Huang told the Poles that despite the economy flushing itself down the toilet, Nvidia would not be cutting back on its R&D spending, adding that particular effort was being put into Tegra mobile devices which could simultaneously support both the Windows CE and Android operating systems.
Jen-Hsen declared "demand for cheap computers, and netbooks in particular," would increase dramatically in the near future, but boasted Nvidia would make the little lappies "more efficient".
Then, in what appears to be minor sexist faux pas, the article quotes Huang as saying "We see people (e.g., young women at home), who use the computer totally differently than professionals or office workers, we want to show that you can easily use the computer while not spending so much money on it". And by "office workers" and "professionals" we at the INQ assume Jen-Hsen meant men, or old women too crusty to sit at home playing with their ‘hello-kitty' pink netbooks.
When we asked an Nvidia spokeswoman about this, she said the comment had probably come from the Polish paper's editor rather than Huang himself, but promised to go home immediately and brush up on her Judith Butler.
Ending the interview on another random note, Huang also heaped praise on the Department of Administration at the University of Warsaw, claiming he believed it to be "one of the best in the world". µ
L'Inq
Gazeta.pl
Actually is ahead of schedule
http://www.brightsideofnews.com/news/2009/5/8/nvidia-first-to-market-with-a-directx-11-gpu.aspx
"Charlie is usually known to be on target, but this goes against the information we know. But what is important is that according to our sources, GeForce GTX 300 series will be shipped in late 3Q 2009, targeting the Back-to-School period. "
The original article actually quotes Jen-Hsen as praising UW's department of computer science as one of the best in the world. Not sure how Google managed to translate that as administration.
As a Polish native speaker I just would like to comment on "young women at home". They were mentioned in the social networking context and quite likely young women are the most active/creative in that area.
On some other subject, Huang does not praise the Department of Administration at University of Warsaw but more likely known to him the one of Computer Science.
Huang,
Can you brings us news other than how you would like to kill intel? Something like a good product coming soon shonney boy!
Don't be naive. This is a PR stunt. If it were to come this early, chips must have been taped out, which it isn't. GT300 won't come until 2010, let's hope it's worth the wait.
"able to produce twice the netbooks for the same price"
Actually what he said was "able to produce twice better netbooks for the same price" ("Jesteśmy w stanie produkować 2 razy lepsze netbooki za tę samą cenę")
""a very dangerous situation for Intel whose main profits come from the sale of processors for both personal and work computers""
And ION doesn't need a processor, I suppose?
Yes, it does. But not Core, nor Xenon but cheap, low powered Atom. And that's the point.
I wonder if Jen-Hsen Huang praised Polish pope John Paul II for his holy endorsement of CUDA:
http://images.google.com/images?q=jan+pawe%C5%82+II+cuda