As you know, Microsoft is DirectCompute with Windows 7 and Apple is promoting OpenCL in Snow Leopard, but the company nVidia, the largest manufacturer of chips for graphics cards, is confident that both of these API are inspired by CUDA, and considers him the most enthusiastic of their collaborators.

"We love both of API, and we are the first to offer compilers and drivers for these API. We have released the world's first driver OpenCL, we released the world's first driver DirectCompute, in fact, we still offer the world's best driver OpenCL, and we all still have the world's best driver DirectCompute, including the world's best compiler CUDA C. The reason why we all love it, that we love all the ways of programming on GPU ", ─ told nVidia CEO Jen-Sun Huang (Jen-Hsun Huang) during his recent visit to China.

He also stressed that DirectComputer and OpenCL emphasize only one operating system, while CUDA is a much more open platform. "If you want visual computing on Linux, we have a CUDA; if you wanted to computing on the GPU in the future for Android, CUDA on cell phones, and GPU computing for mobile phones, we have CUDA. Thus, the presence of an open platform benefits, the most accessible platform for computing GPU ─ is CUDA ".

In addition, nVidia has kindly sent an official statement in connection with reports, recently appeared on the network, according to which the manufacturer conducts a systematic policy against the production company Lucid. PR-manager nVidia Igor Stanek sent the following statement: "We (nVidia) welcome the company Lucid on the market. We believe that nVidia SLI is the best solution with multiple GPU, and we work hard to meet the expectations of gamers that provide solutions SLI greater productivity. Despite unfounded rumors, we have done nothing to disable the technology Lucid ".Company Lucid has not yet commented on this statement.