For a long time now, my own pet nickname for Faud has been "Fraud"...
When reading the few of the Inquirer's forays into perverse, verbose, and flowery prose that I sometimes skim, I see in my mind's eye the image of someone sitting behind a keyboard who is thoroughly bored and so is ransacking the remote corners of his tiny cranium for something "juicy" to write about to create some excitment in his otherwise apparently mundane and flat existence. --Heh...
This stuff reminds me of late 2002, right after ATi had shipped the 9700P, when nV was giving press conferences replete with robust catechisms like: "96-bits is not enough." In this way nV was reminding its audience that the 128-bits it professed to be shipping was indeed certainly enough--er, right before it came to light that the original drivers nV had released were supporting only FP16 at highest precision by default. Stung by these revelations that weren't-supposed-to-happen-because-they-aren't-smart-enough-to-figure-it-out,
nV did indeed release drivers which supported fp32, at which time we discovered that "FP32 isn't nearly as fast as it needs to be to be useful." Thus ended the FP32 lesson for '02 and '03.
But much has happened since then, of which this Inquirer piece seems blissfully unaware. As it is, the piece does a remarkably poor job of proving its statements, but I think most everyone will agree with me that the usual Inquirer piece is long on allegation while incredibly short on corroboration. But, I think that from the Inquirer's viewpoint that's the whole idea, isn't it?...
