Linked by Thom Holwerda on Mon 9th Nov 2009 21:29 UTC
3D News, GL, DirectX 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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you're are right but...
by sergio on Mon 9th Nov 2009 22:49 UTC in reply to "Comment by flanque"
sergio
Member since:
2005-07-06

imho AMD is totally irrelevant.

If Intel keeps doing crappy GPUs, there's a (big) place for NVIDIA.

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RE: you're are right but...
by 0brad0 on Mon 9th Nov 2009 23:40 in reply to "you're are right but..."
0brad0 Member since:
2007-05-05


imho AMD is totally irrelevant.


Until NVIDIA hw has good open source drivers then there is a large market for AMD (and Intel). I try my best to stay away from anything NVIDIA, especially GPUs.

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tylerdurden Member since:
2009-03-17

Right, Linux/BSDs have what 2% of the desktop market. Yeah, real huge numbers there...

The costs of developing a top of the line CPU or GPU are staggering. Certainly a very low single digit of the overall market is not the main hopes for survival of any vendor trying to stay in business.

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RE[2]: you're are right but...
by dexter11 on Tue 10th Nov 2009 09:21 in reply to "RE: you're are right but..."
dexter11 Member since:
2008-01-11

Really? Closed source or not nvidia has the best drivers in Linux land.
And those people who look if the driver is open or not before buying, are the minority.

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