Hi all,

We have just published an interview with *David Kirk, Nvidia's Chief
Scientist*. During the interview we discuss the changing roles of CPUs
and GPUs, GPU Computing, Larrabee and what he thinks about Intel's and
AMD's futures. If you could post a link on your site that would be very
much appreciated.

*Link:*
http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/04/30/david-kirk-interview/1


*Picture:*
http://images.bit-tech.net/content_images/2008/04/david-kirk-interview/fp_img.jpg


*Quote:
*/What would happen if multi-core processors increase core counts
further though, does David believe that this will give consumers enough
power to deliver what most of them need and, as a result of that, would
it erode away at Nvidia's consumer installed base?

"No, that's ridiculous -- it would be at least a thousand times too slow
[for graphics]," he said. "Adding four more cores, for example, is not
going anywhere near close to what is required."

But what about Larrabee -- do you think Intel will get close to Nvidia
with that? "There are no numbers [for Larrabee] yet -- there's only
slideware. The way that slideware works is that everything is perfect."

What if Nvidia has underestimated Intel though and they build an
efficient microarchitecture that scales really well in graphics? "I'm
not going to get into all of the details especially for Larrabee, but
they're missing some pretty important pieces about how a GPU works.
Without being too negative, we see Larrabee as the GPU that a CPU
designer would build, not the GPU you'd build if you were a GPU designer."/
*

*Cheers guys!

Tim Smalley
www.bit-tech.net