Just a short tidbit, but it has all the makings of a great soap opera. First chapter: Intel thinks the CPU can be a GPU. Second chapter: Nvidia is offended. Third chapter (where we are right now): Nvidia fires back and says the CPU is dead. Wonderful! Can there be a more entertaining piece just...

Intel has revealed new details about the firm's next-generation CPU microarchitecture, code-named Nehalem. It is on track for delivery in the second half of 2008. In fact, hereported that each chip will be comprised of approximately 731 million transistors. In its "largest configuration,"...