Published: Tuesday 2nd June, 2009 | Author: Willy Deeplung
Companies: AMD (All AMD content), NVIDIA (All NVIDIA content)
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email to a friendThe shady underbelly of COMPUTEX that is the rumour-mill of Ye Olde Taipei in June, has produced its first spicy HEXUS.bean this year - apparently NVIDIA CEO Jensen Huang may be over here with some shopping in mind, and not just not for souvenirs.
When tech industry aristocracy all gather in one place, the HEXUS bean cup starts to overfloweth, and more than one highly placed source has let it be known they've heard NVIDIA may be looking to embrace another technology company to the green bosom. Permanently.
Prior to AMD's acquisition of ATi Technologies, NVIDIA came very, very close to acquiring AMD itself.
Indeed, it could be said that AMD's acquisition of ATi was somewhat of a reaction to the deal which fell through between AMD and NVIDIA.
And now we're hearing that NVIDIA is once again exploring the acquisition of the other green fabless semiconductor outfit.
Yesterday afternoon, HEXUS hacks exchanged greetings with an NVIDIA posse dutifully surrounding a beaming Jensen... was this a smile brought on by the prospect of a bit of major retail therapy?
In the adopted words of the great INQster, Our Lord Mageek of the Tantric Highlands - "All stories come true in the end"...
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I see nvidia as the worst-positioned company for the introduction of Larrabee.
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Yes it's months away right now, but if they can make a Larrabee chip comparable to the GTX 285 (see link above), then there's no reason they can't go after the money market - of low-mid range chips.
I can see Intel putting the squeeze on Nvidia and AMD/ATI with this sort of tech, but whereas AMD has the capacity to take a similar design route, what can Nvidia do?
Personally I'd like to see AMD and Nvidia do well, their competition gives us fairer prices. And I have a moral objection to giving Intel my cash in general, so they won't be seeing my money unless they come up with something that completely blows away the competition.
Like other posters in this thread, I'm highly skeptical of this happening.
LOL "comparable to the GTX 285". Comparable in that it runs the same things a GTX 285 runs at a quarter of the framerate, on a highly optimized set of drivers that don't get released to the public. That's the kind of "comparable" we've come to expect from Intel and graphics. It seems like their business model is to produce horrible GPU's just so you have a reason to upgrade to the next horrible GPU they integrate.Quote
Well, is it wrong to have a long development cycle? And with there CPU/IGPU coming on the same package soon if that could happen with Larrabee and its supposed performance they may just troll the complete market - before FCC comes in obviously.
You are aware that the graphics technology they put on chip is the illustrious GMA 950, right?
You can probably watch Hulu, but you can't even play World of Warcraft with that - WoW runs, but you can't group, so what is the point? Yes, I want a GPU and a CPU in one package that I can't do even simple things with, that will work out.Quote
You are aware that the graphics technology they put on chip is the illustrious GMA 950, right?
You can probably watch Hulu, but you can't even play World of Warcraft with that - WoW runs, but you can't group, so what is the point? Yes, I want a GPU and a CPU in one package that I can't do even simple things with, that will work out.
Yeah i know its a poor excuse of a GPU - but i just don think its fair to right Larrabbee off.Quote
However, I don't like to bring up 3DFX...but people don't tend to change their habits. Could the same be done again in today's market climate? I hope not...Quote
But would they really want the CPU business? Especially since AMD are currently struggling to match Intel's lead?Quote
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