NVIDIA declares equality with Intel

GPUs by NVIDIA are purportedly as good as Intel's CPUs.

NVIDIA bigwig Jen-Hsun Huang has been telling the world plus dog that his glorious graphics processing empire will soon be an equal partner with Intel processors.

In a "today Apple, tomorrow the world" interview reported by CNET, Huang claimed "Apple is an early indicator" of future glories. "The MacBook Pro to the MacBook Air has a GPU," Huang said, and the Air has benefited by having both an Intel CPU and a Nvidia GPU, he claimed.

"Doing the right job with the right tool is more efficient," he said. Although he seemed to forget that under his glorious plan he wants two 'right' tools under the bonnet of the laptop rather than one. He claimed that the Air runs longer and cooler with a GPU.

Nvidia's killer application is OpenCL, which Huang said makes it possible for developers to efficiently tap the vast gigaflops of computing power in the graphics processing unit.

Huang also said his firm's Tegra chip, which is an ARM-based design that integrates an Nvidia GeForce processor, might represent half of Nvidia's business in a few years. The rest will be divided up between the Tesla, Quadro for professionals and the consumer GeForce markets.

He repeated his slur on the business antics of Intel claiming that it is using pricing to prevent Nvidia from selling more of its Ion processors to punters. Huang whinged that Ion would be selling like hotcakes if Intel hadn't been interfering.