HardwareNVISION 08 - Jen-Hsun Talks Larrabee, Mobility, VIA and More

We were unimpressed with the keynote but it's not because of the speaker. NVIDIA's CEO, Jen-Hsun Huang sat down with us and answered some tough questions about Intel, VIA and the future of NVIDIA....

The first keynote of NVIDIA's first NVISION was...disappointing. I'm sorry, I just couldn't get into it. Journalists lamented Craig Barrett's IDF keynote as being too touchy feely, but the issues he was talking about were honestly more important than Larrabee or CUDA. The Jen-Hsun keynote on the other hand just wasn't very good in my opinion - there were a couple of good demos, the Photosynth and multi-touch demos were great but the rest was a total letdown. Thankfully, Jen-Hsun more than made up for it with the 30 minutes he spent with press after the keynote.Why NVISION?Jen-Hsun started off the Q&A session by answering why he wanted to create NVISION. I’m not sure I totally get the point of this show, everyone at NVIDIA tells me that it’... [ Read more on www.anandtech.com ]

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