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Off-Topic Discussion => General Discussion => Topic started by: redmenace on October 06, 2006, 01:12:08 pm

Title: Intel Might Acquire NVidia
Post by: redmenace on October 06, 2006, 01:12:08 pm

http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/10/05/nvidia_takeover_intel/

Title: Re: Intel Might Acquire NVidia
Post by: Bob-san on October 06, 2006, 01:16:29 pm

Yay! I like nVidia and Intel! I don't like ATI and AMD...

Title: Re: Intel Might Acquire NVidia
Post by: Unknown Target on October 06, 2006, 01:28:24 pm

Interesting.

And the funny thing is, they are pairing up with the same personalities that I gave the companies. ATi and AMD always seemed like the same sort of company persona, same with Intel and Nvidia.

Title: Re: Intel Might Acquire NVidia
Post by: Bob-san on October 06, 2006, 02:13:05 pm

Not to mention that nVidia chipsets are popular for intel processors, and both are comming under fire by AMD/ATI. Intel video chipsets used both ATI and nVidia hardware... looks like they're going 100% with Intel or nVidia chipsets cause ATI will be expensive...

Theyre really chopping up the market. If Intel+nVidia join then AMD+ATI will be like the north and south hemispheres of computers. You gotta look at non-intel motherboards which are rare on factory systems... it might come down to the point where nVidia chipsets dont allow ATI graphics cards and ATI chipsets dont allow nVidia graphics cards.

Title: Re: Intel Might Acquire NVidia
Post by: BlackDove on October 06, 2006, 02:26:47 pm

That would just be stupid and counter profitable. Of course you're going to want to sell your video card, regardless of the motherboard it will be put into.

Title: Re: Intel Might Acquire NVidia
Post by: Triple Ace on October 06, 2006, 08:57:35 pm

Last I knew they decided not to do that.

Title: Re: Intel Might Acquire NVidia
Post by: WMCoolmon on October 06, 2006, 09:14:46 pm

What about those of us who like AMD + Nvidia?

Title: Re: Intel Might Acquire NVidia
Post by: Kosh on October 06, 2006, 11:20:01 pm

Maybe if they have NVidia, then Intel will make some decent integrated video chips. Seriously the ones they have now can handle Quake 2, but I don't think they can handle much more than that.

Title: Re: Intel Might Acquire NVidia
Post by: Descenterace on October 07, 2006, 08:15:37 am

The 955 will run UT2004 reasonably well, but the vertex shaders run on the CPU so you need a good Pentium-M.