creative sells gpu division to intel

[IlllI]

had no idea they still made anything. have no idea what intel will actually gain from buying this http://www.techspot.com/news/50865-...logy-to-intel-as-part-of-50-million-deal.html

 

[dave_the_nerd]

Meh. For a measly $50M, they're probably just buying up some patents so they can sue AMD or NVidia later.

 

[postmortemIA]

Creative is bleeding cash like AMD. $50Mil is a lot to them. They are near end of the life.
I'm surprised that they couldn't strike a deal with some high-end motherboard maker and sell some low-end chips as onboard sound devices..

 

[AnandThenMan]

I'm surprised that they couldn't strike a deal with some high-end motherboard maker and sell some low-end chips as onboard sound devices..

They could have, but didn't. The biggest blunder they ever made, every motherboard could have a Creative chip on it now.

 

[Arachnotronic]

had no idea they still made anything. have no idea what intel will actually gain from buying this http://www.techspot.com/news/50865-...logy-to-intel-as-part-of-50-million-deal.html

It's to help bolster mobile GPU tech.

 

[lamedude]

Looks like 3Dlabs got out of the pro video card market and made some ARM media processors which I guess is what Intel wants.

 

[Lonyo]

Creative is bleeding cash like AMD. $50Mil is a lot to them. They are near end of the life.
I'm surprised that they couldn't strike a deal with some high-end motherboard maker and sell some low-end chips as onboard sound devices..

There are already motherboards with Creative onboard sound...
Fairly sure you can get SB Live, Audigy and X-Fi onboard sound. Or have beeen able to at points in the past (for the older ones)

 

[railven]

Hey, TViceman - doesn't this go against all the R&D projecting Intel has in place?

Who'd have thunk that Intel would buy GPU patents. Now, Intel, go buy AMD's GPU patents and give me a GPU in 2014!

DO IT!!!!