And it looked like such a nice, blissful week. We though this silly feud that's been going on between Intel and NVIDIA was going to stop being so public and get back to the actual hardware, but we were wrong. Horribly, horribly wrong.

Terrifying as that may sound, NVIDIA VP of Content Business Development Relations Roy Taylor put his company's stance on the whole matter down in stone. "A war has just started" he went on to say, "Basically the CPU is dead. Yes, that processor you see advertised everywhere from Intel. Its run out of steam."

Thems fightin' words. I don't know that the CPU is dead, just changing. Processor speed seems to have reached a limit at around 3.2~3.4GHz straight out of the box, but obviously the last few years have seen a shift from frequency to the number of cores.

There's plenty of fun in the email, and lots of great quotes like "This team [Nvidia] is like a Ferrari team." Ahh, spring. It's the war of the roses all over again.

The Inquirer