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Nvidia buying ULI!!!!

OMGWTF 😕
Somehow, this doesn't make me happy, at all.

The more companies out there, the better, since competition = good.

nVidia buying the competition = not good 🙁
 
ULI will be gone in a year. They were creating chipsets that featurewise were surpassing NV4. The only purpose of this purchase was to make them dissapear.
 
That's true... An independant chip maker like ULi should have only needed the "rights" on SLI, and they could have been big...
 
I think this is for the good. I am not sure how well ULI would have done without SLI support in the enthusiast segment. What if that could have killed ULI? Yes, ATI support is there but people would like to have the freedom of buying any vendor's cards.

Yes I do understand that not many of us will be using SLIs, but it doesnt look good on a chipset company to not have high end offerings.
 
This helps Nvidia in 2 ways...

1. They get a very experienced chipset design team who seem to have been making remarkable headway lately.
2. They cut the legs out from a major chipset that was designed to support Crossfire...
 
I don't see this as good news. With them buying ULi, they will pretty much have a strangle hold on the AMD chipset market. VIA isn't doing much these days and ULi's southbridge was the saving grace for ATI's crossfire chipset IMO.
 
Originally posted by: fzkl
That is kickass news!!!!
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This was my thought for about half a second, until I remembered that 'aquisition' simply means ULi will simply disappear.

I think the new ULi chipset had the potential to spawn the next K7s5a (i.e. a stable board with good performance and no premium price). This move will send us right back to a market largely owned by one company and with little competition in pricing.

I can only hope VIA has an answer; SLI doesn't interest me at all, but I'd hate to see the price of a reasonable NF4 board go up by $10-20 because of there being no really good alternative.
 
This might be good for Nvidia, BUT IT IS NOT GOOD FOR YOU! Less competition means higher prices and less innovation. This is bad for the consumer in every way.
 
Acquisitions like these stifle competition and limit development.

Nvidia now is essentialy in control of chipset development for the PC. Who can challenge them - Via?

This is the same method Creative chose to dominate - and control - sound card development.

I don't like it - but there it is!
 
While I agree with most if not all the point made about nV buying a competitor being "bad", but honestly, how many of you really actually planned on buying a ULi-chipset based motherboard?
 
Originally posted by: pukemon
While I agree with most if not all the point made about nV buying a competitor being "bad", but honestly, how many of you really actually planned on buying a ULi-chipset based motherboard?
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Well, I've got one, and I'm sure if some of the bigger mobo makers had got behind them, then many more people would be switching to ULi.
 
Originally posted by: pukemon
While I agree with most if not all the point made about nV buying a competitor being "bad", but honestly, how many of you really actually planned on buying a ULi-chipset based motherboard?
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I would if it served my purpose. I was drooling at the possibilities of that chipset that AT looked at the other day for my 2nd box/PVR rebuild.
 
Originally posted by: pukemon
While I agree with most if not all the point made about nV buying a competitor being "bad", but honestly, how many of you really actually planned on buying a ULi-chipset based motherboard?
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The ASUS A8R-MVP is top on my list, I plan on buying after seeing some user reviews.
 
Many of you mention that you don't think ULi could be competitive in the high end market.

Who cares?! Our market means nothing in the overal sceme of things.

They easily could have taken over the OEM market with their cheap yet good motherboards.

I think that's why nVidia got panicked, because they realized they what could happen.

In the OEM market, SLI/Crossfire/dual PCI-e 8x or 16x means nothing.

 
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