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It's not often but every once in a while companies in our industry go at
each other's throats with no regard to the consequences. NVIDIA has been on
the hunt recently trying to keep its territory; the "whoop ass" comment will
forever live in tech infamy one way or the other. Today NVIDIA's marketing
team sent out a letter to the press "asking questions" about Intel's
Larrabee. We give you some of the highlights with our own commentary.

URL: http://www.pcper.com/comments.php?nid=6008

Quote: "To date, Intel has not described Larrabee's development environment.
While focusing on one aspect of the architecture $B!>(B the X86 instruction set
$B!>(B any differences or new challenges on top of the existing problems with
multi$B!>(Bthreading have yet to be revealed. With a new SSE architecture, new
software layers to manage threads, perhaps another new language with Ct $B!>(B
developers are not simply using the X86 instruction set$B!>!>(Bthey need to
learn the way around a different computing architecture. "

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