Oct 05
The business world is aswirl with Rumors.
Personally, I was expecting this sooner after the AMD & ATI merger was announced. Will this be good? Bad? All I know is the ATI and nVidia are getting a couple of Cash cows (especially nVidia if this merger occurs) that should results in some big time development in the graphic card industry.
Next up, Cyrix buys SiS…except no one notices or cares….
good as long as nVidia will still be able to develop chipsets for amd cpu’s.
it can only be good because now GPUs and CPUs will get along that much better. tru-nuff what deathmonkey says… my only concern would be how CPUs will now work with competing GPUs. of course, only time will tell, but i can’t see either AMD or Intel cutting off it’s nose to spite its face, as it were.
Keep in mind, with the AMD-ATI and possibly Intel- nVidia merger, Graphics chips could be integrated directly into the main CPU. We already have Dual Core chips, what is stopping us from creating polycored chips, with each core handling a specific load, such as sound, graphics, AI, Physics, and main CPU power.
I wouldn’t be surprised if some form of exclusivity happened with the Graphics cards now, with the mergers coming up.
It would be a horrible move but it’s been denied by sources inside both companies so my money is on “no merger”
Not going to happen.
First, both companies say, that there are no such plans for the forseeable future. In the German magazine “PC Games Hardware” Intel said “never say never, but a merger does not go with our current company policy” (losely translated).
Second: nVidia is A HELL of a lot more expensive than ATi. Of course, it’s not like intel would have any problem with that, but it wouldn’t make much sense (if you ask me AMD buying ATi didn’t either, so yeah, what the hell).
Third: what would be the gain for intel? They already have good chipsets and their graphic chips are decent enough for their purpose. From what I understand, AMD bought ATi mostly because they want back in the chipset market, not because of the graphic chips.
my 2 cents
I can see how this could be beneficial. The only prob is that I’ve always been an AMD and Nvidia PC builder. If AMD now owns ATI, what keeps Nvidia from just making crappy things for AMD and vise versa?
Oh well, the times they are a changing…
It’s just sad! Basically if you have Intel and ATI or AMD and NVIDIA, you’re toasted! You have no real choice. You might just well buy a Mac. (There is no way I’ll do that
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Actually, Cyrix was bought by VIA about 7 years ago:
For the net sum of $167 million, VIA Technologies bought the right to not only the MII processor line but also future Cyrix products. (http://www.anandtech.com/showdoc.html?i=1396)
AMD + nvidia would have been nice. both gamer centric…
the whole ATI AMD thing still doesn’t make sense to me…
Intel kind of priced itself out of the builder market, and when AMD started whoopin’ tail with the 64bit processors, I never gave intel another thought for my own PC.