Reuters Report Claims Intel to Acquire NVIDIA
Can you believe it?
Friday, October 6, 2006 by Mithun Pal | Discussion: Industry
Reuters speculates Intel is set to acquire NVIDIA. If the acquisition were to happen it would be interesting to see what Intel has in store for NVIDIA, as Intel holds the majority of the graphics market. Intel’s primary competitor, AMD, previously acquired ATI Technologies -- NVIDIA’s primary competitor. The proposed AMD and ATI merger is nearing its final stages at the moment.
This is still speculation at the moment as NVIDIA was deemed too expensive to purchase.
GreenReaper
Reply #3 Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:05 PM
Reply #3 Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:05 PM
I think they could argue that ATI is still credible competition, particularly as it just merged with AMD.
Moreover, Intel competes only in the low-end integrated arena, while NVIDIA tends towards high-end discrete cards. A merger seems like a natural alliance.
Moreover, Intel competes only in the low-end integrated arena, while NVIDIA tends towards high-end discrete cards. A merger seems like a natural alliance.
bakerstreet
Reply #4 Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:12 PM
Reply #4 Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:12 PM
I see where reply #1 is coming from, but there have been plenty of bigger mergers between competitors. Like GR said, the real competition was from ati/amd, not the junk that intel made. So you still have a fairly evenly divided market.
Actually, couldn't NVidia make the point that pairing with AMD gives ATI an advantage regarding onboard and bundled deals? One would think this would be more of a correction of that problem.
Actually, couldn't NVidia make the point that pairing with AMD gives ATI an advantage regarding onboard and bundled deals? One would think this would be more of a correction of that problem.
kona0197
Reply #5 Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:39 PM
Reply #5 Thursday, October 26, 2006 6:39 PM
Let's hope both AMD and Mvidia get a grip and start making good drivers for the OTHER OS out there.
bakerstreet
Reply #6 Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:42 PM
Why? Oh, I have sympathy for the Linux folks, but honestly when you decide to use Linux you've set yourself down the road of limitation and annoyance. People who use Linux really need to be tinkering people who enjoy such, or they won't like the OS experience anyway.
If they add up the cost of developing Linux drivers, and then add up what they'll make on the low number of Linux users who buy their cards, I have a feeling it won't be much of a profit. Linux is in a bad position, because without the hardware, no one is going to point many games in their direction, but without the games, there isn't much demand for the hardware.
Reply #6 Thursday, October 26, 2006 7:42 PM
| "Let's hope both AMD and Mvidia get a grip and start making good drivers for the OTHER OS out there." |
Why? Oh, I have sympathy for the Linux folks, but honestly when you decide to use Linux you've set yourself down the road of limitation and annoyance. People who use Linux really need to be tinkering people who enjoy such, or they won't like the OS experience anyway.
If they add up the cost of developing Linux drivers, and then add up what they'll make on the low number of Linux users who buy their cards, I have a feeling it won't be much of a profit. Linux is in a bad position, because without the hardware, no one is going to point many games in their direction, but without the games, there isn't much demand for the hardware.
kona0197
Reply #7 Friday, October 27, 2006 9:51 AM
Reply #7 Friday, October 27, 2006 9:51 AM
Well I'm using Linux to avaid using a pirated copy of XP. And your wrong. Linux folls don't need to be the tinkering sort. I'm just gonna stop here because I can see you don't know much about what Linux is really about and how it works. That's OK though.
Fourth Letter
Reply #8 Tuesday, November 28, 2006 5:59 PM
Reply #8 Tuesday, November 28, 2006 5:59 PM
The problem is that Intel are the worlds largest maker of graphics chips regardless of which end of the market they dominate, nvidia and ati also make integrated chips and AMD could buy ati because of their small size and low market share and because THEY DON'T MAKE GRAPHICS CHIPS! Intel does so it IS anti-competitive for them to buy Nvidia , I see where you're coming from BakerStreet with the amount of dodgy mergers that have happened but this one will not and it looks just like a story leaked to sell shares. The real truth is that nvidia have been very up front about their plans to build a CPU
and the only stumbling block seems to be an X86 license WWW Link
and the only stumbling block seems to be an X86 license WWW Link
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Reply #1 Saturday, October 7, 2006 7:32 AM