I’ve got my second day CES coverage up at Tom’s Hardware.
One of the funnier bits I ran across was the dueling AMD / Nvidia booths in the North Hall foyer. I’m not sure if this was intentional, or an accident, but they’re almost right next to each other.
The potentially coolest thing I saw was Nvidia’s FG100 DX11 graphics card actually running in a PC. No word on final specs, pricing or power consumption, though. Now it’s off to CES Thursday and more meetings.
What’s Going on with Nvidia?
Before I dive into this analysis, a bit of disclosure is in order: I worked at Nvidia briefly (roughly nine months) back in 2000, prior to leaving to help launch ExtremeTech.
Nvidia is one of those companies that I have a somewhat bipolar relationship with. On the one hand, they’re technology driven, have a large percentage of the best 3D graphics architects under one roof and have, in the past, constantly pushed the edge of the envelope, both in technology and in marketing. They’ve driven some important and cool technologies in the past decade.
As with any fast growing technology company, though, Nvidia is more complicated than just being a cool tech company.
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