Nvidia Pokes Fun at Intel by Using Cartoons

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2:50 PM - November 6, 2009 by Marcus Yam

Intel's not happy with Nvidia's funnies.

We know that the relationship between Nvidia and Intel these days is slightly adversarial. Of course, companies compete with each other on many levels all the time, and sometimes they aren't above mud slinging.

Nvidia has erected a parody site called IntelsInsides that plays host to a small collection of satirical cartoons.

"[The site] is satirical in nature, and attempts to have a bit of fun with what is quite a serious issue," said Bob Sherbin, Nvidia's head of corporate communications, to ExtremeTech.

Sherbin was referring to Intel's alleged use of incentives for its partners to use Intel chips at the expense of AMD. "The spotlight is on them regarding this issue, and so they are a very obvious target," he said.

Expectantly, Intel isn't pleased. Intel spokesman Chuck Mulloy said the representations of Intel were not accurate.

"It's not cute, it's not accurate, it is Nvidia being Nvidia," Mulloy wrote.

Thus far there have only been five cartoons, which have been reproduced here. Let us know what you think!

Source : Tom's Hardware US

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invlem 11/06/2009 8:57 PM
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Funny XD not exactly good business practice though :P I'll admit that much

92Sileighty 11/06/2009 9:03 PM
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Good for Nvidia!
As the saying goes, the best humor is based on truth.
I can't believe Intel has been allowed to get away with it's monopolistic business practices for so long.

azcoyote 11/06/2009 9:03 PM
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D_Kuhn 11/06/2009 9:04 PM
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Taking potshots at the big guy is SOP - and big guys trying to use their size to get bigger is also SOP.

Free Speech and Capitalism in action... entertaining and enlightening.

insider3 11/06/2009 9:05 PM
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So this is what multi billion dollar companies do on their spare time..

jonpaul37 11/06/2009 9:06 PM
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Very Funny stuff. About time Nivdia showed a sense of humor.

Thing i don't get is why Nvidia has these cartoons up, shouldn't AMD be the one with the cartoons?

B16CXHatch 11/06/2009 9:14 PM
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jonpaul37 :
Thing i don't get is why Nvidia has these cartoons up, shouldn't AMD be the one with the cartoons?



Well, nVidia is pretty cheesed with Intel and I don't blame them. I'm sure AMD is none too happy with Intel either but recently Intel has just slapped nVidia right square in the face.

homrqt 11/06/2009 9:15 PM
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Always a blast to poke fun.

asjflask 11/06/2009 9:20 PM
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This is hilarious lol.. way to go NVIDIA!

ravewulf 11/06/2009 9:30 PM
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azcoyote :
So completely unimportant it is a shock anyone would bother... Stick with hard evidence not silly cartoons. Nvidia seems the petulant child with this kind of silly crud....


Don't underestimate the power of editorial cartoons.

sqhacker 11/06/2009 9:35 PM
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uh oh nvidia needs to watch out, intel might sell their video cards to dell and give them 1.2 billion a year for doing it!!

pale paladin 11/06/2009 9:45 PM
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ptroen 11/06/2009 9:53 PM
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Honestly who cares. AMD is the one leading these days. The new radeon's are just amazing. I'm a AMD fan boy once again :-)

kamar6 11/06/2009 9:54 PM
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Has anyone tried to game with an intel video card? Yikes!

Smochina 11/06/2009 9:57 PM
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jerreece 11/06/2009 10:00 PM
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dtm4trix 11/06/2009 10:04 PM
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I always knew Intel never played fair. Intel's P4's after Northwood were a POS. Not until Core2 did Intel have a good CPU again. But why were AMD chips not more available in OEM products? Intel's underhanded business practices thats why.

steiner666 11/06/2009 10:17 PM
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kinda stupid and childish IMO, but I WOULD very much like to see more of a healthy competition in the CPU industry especially.

rockstone1 11/06/2009 10:29 PM
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One day, AMD and nVidia may merge...

Wait, that's a horrible idea.

zachary k 11/06/2009 11:05 PM
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lol, good one nvidia. but not enough seeing as how Intel stabbed you in the back. (note:they also twisted the knife by making the chipset less important and then left it there)

leon2006 11/06/2009 11:29 PM
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Where is Fermi?

nforce4max 11/06/2009 11:31 PM
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I think I might have finally found a new wallpaper. :D

cookoy 11/06/2009 11:40 PM
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Gin Fushicho 11/07/2009 12:36 PM
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radiovan 11/07/2009 12:43 PM
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wildwell 11/07/2009 1:44 AM
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radiovan :
Besides, this crap does not even phase Intel one bit.


It sounds like it's phasing them to me.

tekeffect 11/07/2009 1:45 AM
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you guys are acting like Nvidia is pulling engineers and R&D money off its graphics card to make this. Its a little cartoon and its funny. Its not like Intel cant handle or deserve for that matter, a little joke at they're exspense.

demonhorde665 11/07/2009 3:31 AM
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these cartoons are great .. remeber kids , mudslinging is only mudslinging when it's not true !!!

WheelsOfConfusion 11/07/2009 3:36 AM
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Wait, is this some kind of joke? Where are the FUNNY cartoons? These don't lampoon so much as ... I don't know what they're doing.

demonhorde665 11/07/2009 3:37 AM
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jerreece :
It's one thing for the media (newspapers, etc) to make cartoons like this. But generally I think it's a stupid idea for nVidia to be doing this. Especially with ongoing litigation between Intel & nVidia over different competitive things.In all reality, Intel and nVidia shouldn't be fighting each other. In some sense, they are equally competitors against ATI/AMD. This bickering isn't helping either of them.



you obviously don't udnerstand teh full anture of teh beast that is intel ... Nivida was quite willign to work with intel equally against thier competition , but , intel didnt want that. what intel wants is to make thier own video card , eliminate nivdia and then try to eliminate amd/ati, theya re going for nothign less than total market domination with any thing processor related (this include graphic processors)

bachok83 11/07/2009 4:30 AM
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HA HA HA. You know when you pull a prank on your closest buddy.. it's funny..

Wait, I thought Intel and nVidia are BFFs? (*wink* *wink*) :)


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