Intel to buy Nvidia?

[FelixDeCat]

http://biz.yahoo.com/bizj/061004/1355788.html?.v=1

Santa Clara-based Nvidia (NASDAQ:NVDA - News) closed at $31.08 from its opening of $28.28, and more than 22 million shares changed hands, more than double the average daily volume over the past three months.

Investors speculated that Nvidia might be acquired by Santa Clara-based Intel (NASDAQ:INTC - News) after its rival, Markham, Ontario-based ATI (NASDAQ:ATYT - News) was acquired in July by Sunnyvale-based Advanced Micro Devices Inc. (NYSE:AMD - News) for about $5.4 billion.

Leap ahead. 😀

 

[jlbenedict]

well holy $hite!

 

[ForumMaster]

repost from the morning. there was a post about this in the video section.

 

[acemcmac]

its' on the inq too

 

[Glavinsolo]

And so begins the new age of computing.

Nvidia and ATI are fabless so to have a company like AMD or Intel with many fabs will drive prices down and cause the upcoming video cards/other cards to have processor upgrade capability.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo
And so begins the new age of computing.

Nvidia and ATI are fabless so to have a company like AMD or Intel with many fabs will drive prices down and cause the upcoming video cards/other cards to have processor upgrade capability.

Prices better come down! $500 video cards arent funny anymore. And they want us all to have SLI / crossfire? Puhlease!

 

[BAMAVOO]

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo
And so begins the new age of computing.

Nvidia and ATI are fabless so to have a company like AMD or Intel with many fabs will drive prices down and cause the upcoming video cards/other cards to have processor upgrade capability.

Prices better come down! $500 video cards arent funny anymore. And they want us all to have SLI / crossfire? Puhlease!

This is why I am stuck on socket 754 🙁

 

[imported_LoKe]

They should swap; AMD + nVidia, Intel + ATi.

 

[j00fek]

i dont think so

 

[Kelvrick]

Originally posted by: LoKe
They should swap; AMD + nVidia, Intel + ATi.

Yea, considering the nforce chipsets for the athlons makes things very tidy, it didn't happen.

I'm torn now about who to support. 😀

 

[So]

Originally posted by: BAMAVOO

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo
And so begins the new age of computing.

Nvidia and ATI are fabless so to have a company like AMD or Intel with many fabs will drive prices down and cause the upcoming video cards/other cards to have processor upgrade capability.

Prices better come down! $500 video cards arent funny anymore. And they want us all to have SLI / crossfire? Puhlease!

This is why I am stuck on socket 754 🙁

QFT. The move to PCI-e has discouraged me from getting a new board/cpu since I'll have to get a new video card and (now) new ram to boot. My computer will last one more year.

 

[rivan]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: BAMAVOO

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo
And so begins the new age of computing.

Nvidia and ATI are fabless so to have a company like AMD or Intel with many fabs will drive prices down and cause the upcoming video cards/other cards to have processor upgrade capability.

Prices better come down! $500 video cards arent funny anymore. And they want us all to have SLI / crossfire? Puhlease!

This is why I am stuck on socket 754 🙁

QFT. The move to PCI-e has discouraged me from getting a new board/cpu since I'll have to get a new video card and (now) new ram to boot. My computer will last one more year.

Same here. Honestly, I'm just fine with my x850xtpe and 3200+. My 19" LCD is 1280x and I don't see a huge improvement going to 1600x or higher anyway.

That, and the shortage of good new games means I'm sitting pretty for another year, possibly two. I'm playing BG2 again right now 😀

 

[Tremulant]

Originally posted by: rivan

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: BAMAVOO

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo
And so begins the new age of computing.

Nvidia and ATI are fabless so to have a company like AMD or Intel with many fabs will drive prices down and cause the upcoming video cards/other cards to have processor upgrade capability.

Prices better come down! $500 video cards arent funny anymore. And they want us all to have SLI / crossfire? Puhlease!

This is why I am stuck on socket 754 🙁

QFT. The move to PCI-e has discouraged me from getting a new board/cpu since I'll have to get a new video card and (now) new ram to boot. My computer will last one more year.

Same here. Honestly, I'm just fine with my x850xtpe and 3200+. My 19" LCD is 1280x and I don't see a huge improvement going to 1600x or higher anyway.

That, and the shortage of good new games means I'm sitting pretty for another year, possibly two. I'm playing BG2 again right now 😀

Same for me. I have a 6800GT, 3000+, and a 20" WS LCD (1680x1050), and it plays WoW, BF2, and any other games that interest me without a problem.

However, I'm looking forward to Vanguard and Warhammer Online, so I'm hoping that my computer will last another 2 to 2.5 years. I won't be able to build (or buy) a new PC until then.

 

[ballmode]

I wonder how this will shape the market in 2 years

 

[Chadder007]

Originally posted by: Tremulant

Originally posted by: rivan

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: BAMAVOO

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo
And so begins the new age of computing.

Nvidia and ATI are fabless so to have a company like AMD or Intel with many fabs will drive prices down and cause the upcoming video cards/other cards to have processor upgrade capability.

Prices better come down! $500 video cards arent funny anymore. And they want us all to have SLI / crossfire? Puhlease!

This is why I am stuck on socket 754 🙁

QFT. The move to PCI-e has discouraged me from getting a new board/cpu since I'll have to get a new video card and (now) new ram to boot. My computer will last one more year.

Same here. Honestly, I'm just fine with my x850xtpe and 3200+. My 19" LCD is 1280x and I don't see a huge improvement going to 1600x or higher anyway.

That, and the shortage of good new games means I'm sitting pretty for another year, possibly two. I'm playing BG2 again right now 😀

Same for me. I have a 6800GT, 3000+, and a 20" WS LCD (1680x1050), and it plays WoW, BF2, and any other games that interest me without a problem.

However, I'm looking forward to Vanguard and Warhammer Online, so I'm hoping that my computer will last another 2 to 2.5 years. I won't be able to build (or buy) a new PC until then.

Same here too....the quick move to PCI-E has stopped me from going over too. They did it to themselves though for trying to sell new chipsets and not wanting to keep making cards for AGP.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: ballmode
I wonder how this will shape the market in 2 years

Ill tell you two years from now.

 

[gotsmack]

Not going to happen. Intel can just buy the Power VR Team for a lot less and they licensed their stuff already.

 

[themusgrat]

And who has ever heard of Power VR? I think that nVidia would do much better, Intel is all about the branding. I think it could so happen, they almost need to do this in response to AMD and ATI.

 

[BullyCanadian]

Originally posted by: So

Originally posted by: BAMAVOO

Originally posted by: FelixDeKat

Originally posted by: Glavinsolo
And so begins the new age of computing.

Nvidia and ATI are fabless so to have a company like AMD or Intel with many fabs will drive prices down and cause the upcoming video cards/other cards to have processor upgrade capability.

Prices better come down! $500 video cards arent funny anymore. And they want us all to have SLI / crossfire? Puhlease!

This is why I am stuck on socket 754 🙁

QFT. The move to PCI-e has discouraged me from getting a new board/cpu since I'll have to get a new video card and (now) new ram to boot. My computer will last one more year.

Same, this is the same computer Ive had since Dec '03 this is the first time I have kept a computer this long....

 

[gotsmack]

Originally posted by: themusgrat
And who has ever heard of Power VR? I think that nVidia would do much better, Intel is all about the branding. I think it could so happen, they almost need to do this in response to AMD and ATI.

no, the intel brand is already too strong, mixing it in with the nvidia brand would lead to major internal headaches.

The power VR team could just be called Intel graphics and people would buy it.

 

[daveshel]

I would like that even less than AMD buying ATI. But intel is big enough that there might be some oppostion on anti-trust grounds.

 

[AndrewR]

Originally posted by: daveshel
I would like that even less than AMD buying ATI. But intel is big enough that there might be some oppostion on anti-trust grounds.

Why? It doesn't give a monopoly position on anything. ATI and SiS still produce chipsets and removing nVidia from the market simply opens up greater sales possibilities for them (particularly ATI).

I guess I could see Intel buying nVidia because the eventul integration of ATI into AMD puts Intel at a competitive disadvantage, at least theoretically (Intel is still such a damn juggernaut). I would actually be somewhat happy because then you could buy a Centrino laptop without that crappy Intel graphics! 😉

 

[AnonymouseUser]

I hope this doesn't happen. I was actually hoping for a three-way CPU/GPU battle, with AMD + ATI, Intel + Intel, and Via + Nvidia.

 

[gotsmack]

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
I hope this doesn't happen. I was actually hoping for a three-way CPU/GPU battle, with AMD + ATI, Intel + Intel, and Via + Nvidia.

Via and nvidia isn't going to happen, their CPU stuff is way behind the times. more like nvidia and a cell processor partner.

 

[FelixDeCat]

Originally posted by: AnonymouseUser
I hope this doesn't happen. I was actually hoping for a three-way CPU/GPU battle, with AMD + ATI, Intel + Intel, and Via + Nvidia.

Hey dont forget:

Voodoo, Silicon Graphics, S3, Hercules and Triton!