Published: Friday 6th November, 2009 | Author: Parm Mann
Companies: Intel (All Intel content), NVIDIA (All NVIDIA content)
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email to a friendIn terms of corporate relationships, NVIDIA and Intel tend not to be the best of friends. With a dispute over the production of Intel chipsets ongoing, NVIDIA has opted to poke fun at the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer by launching a site dubbed Intel's Insides.
Described by NVIDIA as "a parody of events occurring within the semiconductor sector, with particular focus on its largest, and most-commented-upon competitor," the site shows caricatures of Intel CEO Paul Otellini making Godfather-like offers that have recently come under the scrutiny of the law.
Although the site's five cartoons currently focus on Intel, we wouldn't be surprise to see other companies soon featured in NVIDIA's firing line. AMD springs first to mind.
Global corporations attempting to belittle one another is nothing new, of course - the likes of Apple have been doing it for years - but in all good conscience, we couldn't say we didn't find NVIDIA's caricatures to be just a touch amusing.
What do you think, readers? Good attempt at humour, or bad taste on the part of NVIDIA?
Link: intelsinsides.com
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Such hypocrites... we have a whole thread pretty much dedicated to ripping one into NVidia's business practices and yet they still thik they are the good guys?!
Intel's decision to limit competition in the motherboard chipset market by violating their crosslicensing agreement is a separate situation than Eidos's decision to only use NVIDIA code for Batman antialiasing rather than write their own for other brands of cards.
You can't generalize across situations.Quote
Although, as someone else pointed out, as far as nvidia is concerned, people in glass houses...Quote
You can't generalize across situations.
No you can't, they are isolated incidents, and in completely different market segments, but NVIDIA do appear to being hypocritical about anti-trust violations. Especially if you consider the PhysX lock out, which is an anti-trust violation in my books (product tying). Weather or not the Eidos situation is the fault of NVIDIA by buying out Eidos to preventing competitors using AA is another issue, and will only serve to reinforce their hypocricy if proved true.Quote
Intel's decision to limit competition in the motherboard chipset market by violating their crosslicensing agreement is a separate situation than Eidos's decision to only use NVIDIA code for Batman antialiasing rather than write their own for other brands of cards.
You can't generalize across situations.
The other thread is about a multitude of Nvidias questionable business decisions, how about we use their brick walling f the hydra system instead? yeah that one works pretty well. Just add them all up and it creates an image of a company who has no right to question another company on similar infraction imposed upon them.
Poetic irony in a way.Quote
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