<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">2009/12/9 Marc Barrett <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mnealbarrett@cox.net">mnealbarrett@cox.net</a>></span><br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin: 0pt 0pt 0pt 0.8ex; border-left: 1px solid rgb(204, 204, 204); padding-left: 1ex;">
[snip - intel buy nVidia]<br></blockquote><div><br>I would be very suprised if this actually came to pass, nVidia do look like they're slowly deflating in a cupboard (apart from their low power stuff(, their latest part is very very late, and dogged by manufacturing problems.<br>
<br>Also, intel are more than capable of designing stuff themselves, the next iteration of the Atom does feature an integrated graphics part for example. I would be very surprised if they did this without giving it enough oomph for the HD stuff.<br>
<br>Also, I'm not sure Larrabee has been canned, as I understand it they have decided not to release a GPU with the first version (which is quite late already), and are pushing it out to the HPC crowd, with the second iteration being slated for the GPU stuff. [1]<br>
<br>Also, if intel bought nVidida they would probably be looking at some serious anti competitive stuff, as they would have the CPU/GPU market pretty much sewn up given their huge manufacturing advantage (they do have some pretty advanced fabs), it would probably be in their interest to keep nVidia separate (but quite poorly) for some competition.<br>
<br>Will be interesting if it happens though.<br><br>Ian<br><br>[1] From the oh so excitable but often right Charlie D here:<br><br><a href="http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/12/04/intel-kills-consumer-larrabee-focuses-future-variants/">http://www.semiaccurate.com/2009/12/04/intel-kills-consumer-larrabee-focuses-future-variants/</a><br>
<br>or the slightly more sedate TGDaily here:<br><br><a href="http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-opinion/44949-larrabee-we-didnt-know-you-well-enough">http://www.tgdaily.com/hardware-opinion/44949-larrabee-we-didnt-know-you-well-enough</a><br>
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