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Intel and Nvidia are entering into a new, nasty phase of competition. What’s at stake? Only the future of the personal computer.

Though the Santa Clara, Calif., neighbors (only a couple of miles from each other) have never really been on speaking terms, the rivalry is intensifying with the emergence of the Netbook–small, lightweight laptops priced below $500.

The competitive backdrop is still the same–Intel’s longstanding (and very successful) vision of a CPU-centric universe versus Nvidia’s creed that graphics processing matters more and more in a multimedia-intensive world.

The challenge for Nvidia is that as laptops downsize into Netbooks, a graphics vacuum has been created. And Nvidia abhors a graphics vacuum.

Nvidia’s vision of the Netbook core

(Credit: Nvidia)

Inside almost every Acer, Asus, Hewlett-Packard, and Dell Netbook beats an Intel silicon core. Both CPU and GPU–the latter in the form of the Intel Graphics Media Accelerator 950. Read the rest at-http://news.cnet.com/8301-1001_3-10127699-92.html

http://www.vindy.com/news/2008/dec/21/pc-makers-aim-for-more-sales-with-netbooks/

http://www.newmobilecomputing.com/story/20671/NetBooks_To_Get_Serious_Performance_Boost_Next_Year

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