Page 1 of 1
#1 Intel to acquire nVidia?
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 2:55 am
by Kreshna Aryaguna Nurzaman
Here's the news.
Alright, for us consumers, does it mean good thing or bad thing?
#2
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 4:03 am
by Dark Silver
well, it pretty much means forget getting a AMD product with Nvidia chipsets out of the box (if you dont build your own), and vice versa with the Intel/ATI.
Also may mean, further down the line, NVidia card will perform better with Intel Chipsets.
We saw this coming when ATI was purchased by AMD. Just had to wait for it to occur.
#3
Posted: Thu Oct 05, 2006 8:23 am
by Ace Pace
It will probebly NOT happen. Atleast not the next few years.
Why? Several reasons.
Cash, Intel is on a cost cutting spree, you want them to spend $10b on another company that dosn't bring anything unique?
IP, nVIdia would bring nothing beyond GPU talent. Intel dosn't need help with it's chipsets, it has the best chipset engineers in the world. Also, nVidia dosn't have that huge a GPu talent group. Their main advantage is a massive collection of patents such as the SLI patent.
Last, nVidias CEO has publicly stated he will not allow a merger that dosn't end up with him as CEO.