Larrabee will be a new face among graphics cards in 2010 and Intel’s care baby is suggested to use a production model similar to the one used by NVIDIA. Intel and NVIDIA has been battling each other for a couple of years now and the latest information on Larrabee’s launch is a real kick in the teeth for NVIDIA. It has been suggested that Intel is getting a foot in at EVGA, maybe as a launch partner. EVGA is one of NVIDIA’s strongholds.
The source points out that NVIDIA has lost many exclusive partners over the last year or so and even if most of them are still selling NVIDIA graphics cards they also offer a broad assortment of graphics cards from competitor AMD.
One of the first 300mm Larrabee wafers
The last to abandon its exclusive ties to NVIDIA was XFX that started selling its first Radeon graphics cards in January 2009.
It is still unclear how the introduction of Intel graphics cards will affect EVGA’s cooperation with NVIDIA, bu we’re certain that NVIDIA is anything but happy about this, if it turns out to be true.
