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.