Experts said that if Nvidia is serious about trying to smash the Intel AMD chip duopoly, it has to avoid doing what happened in the case of Cyrix, PowerPC, and Transmeta.

In-Stat analyst Ian Lao said that the chip market has decisively shifted to notebook PCs and smartphones and there was no room for add-on cards and in mobile devices, the GPU's raw speed is less important than size, wattage and playing well with other internal components. Independent analyst Rob Enderle said that Nvidia has made little headway with its Ion because of Intel has bundled it out.

Meanwhile Intel's integrated graphics chips can already support Blu-ray HD video. And Intel is readying Larrabee GPUs for the add-on graphics market. Nathan Brookwood, an analyst with Insight64, told Computerworld that Nvidia should not try to create its own CPU, like Cyrix, PowerPC, Transmeta did. 

Not only would it would be starting too far behind Intel and AMD, it would also be buggy because it could not be compatible with all of the weirdness and bugs of the older one.