6800 / AMD / IBM Speculation?

[addragyn]

Originally posted by: ingenuiti
I hope you guys realize that IBM's semiconductor business has reported a loss of $150 million. I'm not sure what type of strategic opportunity there is for IBM to take on the risk of buying AMD or Nvidia as the original poster just mentioned.

Well the loss isn't really a surprise. They are ramping up a $3B fab after all. This is a company that has over $20B in business a quarter The future business is definitely there.

IBM has combined Server & Chip groups into the Systems & Technology groups.

I don't think IBM has any current interest in commodity x86 silicon. There is no evidence to indicate otherwise.

 

[Intelman07]

I want both companies to have a really close performance range. Just because competition is good. Dominating makers really kinda sucks, $$$. So, I hope there isn't any "beating, or takeovers".

 

[rbV5]

What would be very intersting is that if the GPU can offload enough of the encoding work from the CPU... that AMD / Intel processor are essentially equal in peformance in this field, AMD could have the all around better processor

And in the case of NV, you will also have the GPU free as the VP does the bulk of the work.

 

[Mingon]

Originally posted by: rbV5

What would be very intersting is that if the GPU can offload enough of the encoding work from the CPU... that AMD / Intel processor are essentially equal in peformance in this field, AMD could have the all around better processor

And in the case of NV, you will also have the GPU free as the VP does the bulk of the work.

If performance is +50% for both processors then you negate an increase. You cant compare amd+nvidia to just intel it must be both equal.

 

[Cerb]

Originally posted by: Mingon

Originally posted by: rbV5

What would be very intersting is that if the GPU can offload enough of the encoding work from the CPU... that AMD / Intel processor are essentially equal in peformance in this field, AMD could have the all around better processor

And in the case of NV, you will also have the GPU free as the VP does the bulk of the work.

If performance is +50% for both processors then you negate an increase. You cant compare amd+nvidia to just intel it must be both equal.

Yes, but right now, you're only dealing with 10-15%. If the video card does, say, 50% of the work, you have, at best, a 7% advantage.