Nvidia CEO Celebrates FTC's Case Against Intel
Nvidia Chief weighs in on Intel's FTC strife.
Yesterday news broke that the FTC was investigating Intel. Soon after, Nvidia CEO Jen Hsun Huang sent out a company memo informing the troops that this kind of event could "transform the industry." Read Huang's full memo below.
Hi everyone,
The U.S. government announced today that it has filed an antitrust lawsuit against Intel. This is an action the industry needs and one that consumers deserve. And it’s one that can completely transform the computer industry.
The facts are clear. The FTC has charged that Intel has used its monopoly illegally to stifle innovation, to keep prices for their products inflated, and to unfairly block competitors. The FTC believes that millions of consumers have paid more and received less quality in return–and that companies and their employees have been forced out of markets where Intel has been threatened.
Intel is fully aware that great graphics have become one of the most important features for consumer PCs, the fastest-growing segment of the PC market. Even more alarming to Intel is the revolutionary parallel computing technology in our GPUs that is being adopted by software developers across the world. The more successful we became, the bigger threat we were to Intel’s monopoly. Instead of creating competitive GPU solutions and competing on the merits of their products, Intel has resorted to unlawful acts to stop us. The FTC announced today that this isn’t acceptable.
Nothing this complicated gets decided quickly. It will take months for the FTC case to be heard by an administrative judge who will then recommend a ruling back to the FTC. And it’s possible that this decision could be appealed. But today is a huge step forward for all of us that will begin to re-level the playing field.
Today’s FTC announcement highlights the industry-changing impact of the GPU and the importance of our work. Our innovation is making the PC magical and amazing again. I can now imagine the day when Intel can no longer block consumers from enjoying our creation and experience computing in a way we know is possible.
Keep innovating...
Jensen
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Maybe this will force Intel to produce a proper IGP...or not
That dude's tie looks photoshopped.
Dear Nvidia
Every time I hear anything from or about you, my opinion of you lowers.
Please shut up now.
mi1ez
This coming from the company who block physx when an AMD GPU is present?
Um...I know Intel have abused their position in the past and are always walking a very thin line, but can somebody please refresh my memory as to when exactly Intel have blocked NVIDIA from doing anything?
OK, Intel weren't too happy about Ion but they didn't block anything. Intel haven't actively denied NVIDIA an x86 license because NVIDIA never asked for it.
Am I missing something?
But +1 to mi1ez - NVIDIA really can't say shit given they block PhysX when paired with AMD GPUs and (don't quite me though) I heard somewhere they deny you use of CUDA SDK if you so much as utter an interest in using ATI Stream.
Probably rubbish, but we're seeing more and more GPGPU stuff based on ATI Stream than we are based on CUDA (or is that because Radeons are suddenly worth a damn), and I've personally never seen a GPGPU app that can use both.
difference is Nvidia own the rights to physx since the buyout , doesnt make sense for them t allow a rival to use their software to benefit games , physx is an enticement for multiple gpus
difference is Nvidia own the rights to physx since the buyout , doesnt make sense for them t allow a rival to use their software to benefit games , physx is an enticement for multiple gpus
We're not talking about licensing PhysX to competitors, we're talking about NVIDIA drivers disabling PhysX on NVIDIA hardware when the drivers detect the presence of ATI hardware. That is directly denying me from using a feature I've purchased just because I dare own a competitor's product. And NVIDIA cry foul because they think Intel blocks people?
And PhysX was never supposed to be an "enticement" anyway, it was supposed to be a fully-featured product to add Physics co-processing to hardcore gaming systems. But Aegia bombed, NVIDIA bought the technology and they couldn't push it so they've just wrapped it up as a "feature" of their GPU architecture.
As an aside, I'm not quite sure I buy into the "pay more, receive less" argument anyway - pay £200 for an i7 920 which in itself is a serious piece of kit THEN overclock the motherlicker to 4GHz for performance that totally outstrips even the flagship Extreme Editions.
Sounds like a bargain to me quite frankly. Yes, AMD shave £50 off that with their flagship Phenom II X4 with an unlocked multiplier to boot, but the i7 920 stomps all over the Phenoms (unfortunately) and you pay for what you get.
Nvidia, I'mma let you finish, but you should know your CEO sounds like a hack that would sell his mother if it meant more profit.