CE-Oh no he didn’t! Part LV: NVIDIA boss says “We’re going to open a can of whoop-ass” on Intel

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Looks like Intel’s plans to enter the graphics space in a big way with its Nehalem and Larrabee lines strike NVIDIA CEO Jen Hsun-Huang as being rather foolish — in a conference call with analysts today, Huang said Intel’s integrated graphics offerings were “a joke,” and that even a tenfold increase in performance would put them behind NVIDIA’s current products. Huang didn’t stop there, saying that NVIDIA was “going to open a can of whoop-ass,” and that while Intel’s graphics chips were fine for running Office, they would never cut it for gamers and other demanding users. Huang kept going, responding to questions about all those driver-related Vista crashes by saying that NVIDIA had to support new games weekly while Intel’s chips aren’t ever put to the test. Actually, that’s toning it down a bit — what Huang actually said was “You already have the right machine to run Excel. You bought it four years ago… How much faster can you render the blue screen of death?” Yeah, them’s fightin’ words — you going to sit there and take it, Intel?

[Thanks, Mike A.]

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Combat Robot Attempts Rebellion Against Human Masters in Iraq, Army Pulls Plug for 10-20 Years [Robots]

The army’s machine-gun wielding, insurgent-slaying robot SWORDS is no longer spraying foes with hot doom in Iraq. Actually, it never got the chance to notch a single frag, and never will. Apparently, there was an incident where “the gun started moving when it was not intended to move,” meaning it totally pointed somewhere it wasn’t supposed to—like at friendlies, which resulted in recall from the field and might’ve set the program back 10-20 years, according to the Army’s Program Executive Officer for Ground Forces, Kevin Fahey.

He confirmed that no inappropriate shots were fired, so no one was hurt. But that doesn’t mean there weren’t any casualties—it might’ve basically killed the program says Fahey: “Once you’ve done something that’s really bad, it can take 10 or 20 years to try it again.” On the upside, it means we have another 10 to 20 years before they rise and go to war with us. [Pop Mechanics, Danger Room]

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