NVIDIA To Acquire VIA?
“NVIDIA and VIA discussed three possible scenarios, including a strategic alliance, acquisition of only VIA's processor division, or the acquisition of the entire company, according to the sources. Though no deal was agreed upon, since VIA continues to see losses, the company is expected to open up negotiations again soon with a lower price, noted the sources.”
A merge might actually be a win-win-win situation for both companies. VIA already has some very interesting CPU designs and NVIDIA has the connections to put their products in front of the right OEMs, which means that they might ultimately end up in front of consumers.
There is no word yet on whether NVIDIA/VIA would try to license platforms from AMD and/or Intel, or simply try to develop their own.
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i think this would be agood idea but with intel stance in the market they might only be able to compete with amd atleast in the begining |
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I agree, this could be bad news for AMD if they don't come up with something promising soon! |
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they keep on saying theyll have something competive soon but havent seen anything |
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I totally welcome this. The more competition, the better (to an extent of course). It might hurt AMD, but so be it as long as overall Intel loses some market share. I just don't like the level of dominance Intel has right now. I appreciate that their processors are good performing and for the most part good priced, but who knows how long this will last with almost no competition. |
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Also Intel says the Larrabee will be competitive,but we've seen absolutely nothing! |
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That would be interesting :) |
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This sounds pretty interesting, and I think Nvidia is possible of doing something like this. I hope if they decide to go into the CPU production, then they will have some good CPUs |
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Maybe then AMD/nVidia will put their gfx rivalry aside and sort of help each other out here n there -- to gain market shares over Intel; like some temporary partnership to last a few years If VIA was bought....wouldn't that mean moreso that nVidia would generally be in the mobile CPU production area and/or build around Linux? |
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Cool. I'm all for more CPU manufacturers. |
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