Well, we've gone a full month since the last episode of NVIDIA's and Intel's ongoing public feud, but it looks like Intel has now stoked the flames once again (albeit inadvertently) in a paper presented at the recent International Symposium on Computer Architecture.
Mr. Houghton has described them as torn pieces of paper, perhaps in reference to Mr. Gehry's reputed method of crumpling scraps to model his architecture's curves.