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Old 31-08-2009, 06:00 PM   #37 (permalink)
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Re: Beans - HEXUS.beans :: NVIDIA again considering acquisition of AMD?

Originally Posted by AntiTalent View Post
I see nvidia as the worst-positioned company for the introduction of Larrabee.

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Yes it's months away right now, but if they can make a Larrabee chip comparable to the GTX 285 (see link above), then there's no reason they can't go after the money market - of low-mid range chips.

I can see Intel putting the squeeze on Nvidia and AMD/ATI with this sort of tech, but whereas AMD has the capacity to take a similar design route, what can Nvidia do?

Personally I'd like to see AMD and Nvidia do well, their competition gives us fairer prices. And I have a moral objection to giving Intel my cash in general, so they won't be seeing my money unless they come up with something that completely blows away the competition.

Like other posters in this thread, I'm highly skeptical of this happening.
LOL "comparable to the GTX 285". Comparable in that it runs the same things a GTX 285 runs at a quarter of the framerate, on a highly optimized set of drivers that don't get released to the public. That's the kind of "comparable" we've come to expect from Intel and graphics. It seems like their business model is to produce horrible GPU's just so you have a reason to upgrade to the next horrible GPU they integrate.
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