Intel to aquire nVdia?

[s_kinton]

Here's the link

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4440

What do you think?

[leeglf]

i really would not be suprised if this happened soon alot of people have been speculating that it would be a viable option for intel since the amd/ati takeover!

[neonplanet40]

i read in pcformat that amd bought over ati for 5.2 MILLION now that seems very low for me. Im hoping it was a misprint and it meant billions. If not i would of got a huge loan out and bought them myself for 5.2million $'s

[unreal]

I'm sure that's Billions



TBH I would have preferred ATI & Intel, and AMD & nVidia but oh well ^_^

[leeglf]

I'm sure that's Billions



TBH I would have preferred ATI & Intel, and AMD & nVidia but oh well ^_^

if intel do buy nvidia you could send them an email to see if they want to do a swap with amd you never know your luck

[Kumagoro]

I would think that it would be blocked due to monopoly type stuff.

[dave87]

I doubt it unless they manage to break US AntiTrust laws - the ATi & AMD merger was allowed, so unless they do something drastically wrong I guess it will be let through

[Badgersaur]

hah, i cant really see this happening - but if it did it might be kinda cool to have two consolidated sides ripping it out of each other for our hard earned..... i just hope they give us the choice to mix and match the best of each!

[SilentDeath]

hah, i cant really see this happening - but if it did it might be kinda cool to have two consolidated sides ripping it out of each other for our hard earned..... i just hope they give us the choice to mix and match the best of each!

Nope. If intel take nvidia, we wont be seeing any more nforce motherboards for amd cpus.

And nvidia have been the only realy good chipset designer for amd... without them we are left with.. via and sis (ati is closing the chipset side of business?)

[father smurf]

(ati is closing the chipset side of business?)

no theyr not... only perhaps 4 intel

[Skyrail]

Well it could happen as an 'attack' on ATi but it would just mess the market up, make it harder to use ATi cards with Intel as each company would want people to go with their products. Difficult people

[DR]

I would be amazed if this happens - totally amazed


.... Why would you spend 10B$ on an operation which you already have products competing with?

[charleski]

Intel has had ambitions of making fast integrated graphics for several years, but has never managed to make it happen, so buying in nvidia expertise might make sense. I think it's quite possible, if only because they need to cover their backs against a breakthrough on the cHT front.

Unfortuntely all this consolidation is going to be bad news for us, as a few years down the line the choices in terms of mixing CPUs, chipsets and GPUs are going to be much more limited.