Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Nov 2009 21:29 UTC
Over the past few years, there have been persistent rumours that NVIDIA, the graphics chip maker, was working on an x86 chip to compete with Intel and AMD. Recently, these rumours gained some traction, but NVIDIA's CEO just shot them down, and denied the company will enter the x86 processor market.
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When it comes to dedicated graphics, I've favored nVidia for quite a while. OTOH, I opted to go with integrated graphics with my last laptop. The reason is that the integrated card is better than my old dedicated card from 4-5 years prior, and can do anything but gaming. My priorities have also changed over time, since I now rarely play new games, and prefer open source drivers and better battery life. For me, a discrete graphics card was actually undesirable, although my reasoning only really applies to laptops.
That said, I think nVidia has some potential in the x86 market for gamers. With most games, there is no benefit for having a CPU beyond the recommended specification, but the visual experience scales up almost linearly with graphics card power. So I see a market for PCs built completely around graphics performance, with the CPU being basically an afterthought. Kinda the opposite of having a fast CPU and integrated graphics, which is better/cheaper for general computing.