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Old August 13th 08, 11:26 PM posted to alt.comp.hardware.amd.x86-64,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.nvidia,alt.comp.periphs.videocards.ati,comp.sys.intel,comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video
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Default TheInquirer: 'Why AMD should merge with Nvidia'

NV55 wrote:
Why AMD should merge with Nvidia

Comment: To save us from Intel

By Axonn Echysttas

TO QUOTE A famous expression: "there can be only one". Looking at how
things shape up for AMD and Nvidia, it's rather obvious to see that in
the future there can be only one.



This seems to ignore the fact that right now AMD's GPUs have just taken
the lead from Nvidia on both the price/performance and the
performance/power-consumption basis. Also AMD has more experience in
design for manufacturing, so it looks like like it will be able to get
to process nodes sooner than Nvidia. There's even talk that together
with TSMC AMD will get to the 40nm half-node sooner than Intel, putting
it slightly ahead of Intel too (until Intel gets to 32nm).

Beyond that, AMD's Fusion CPU/GPU looks like it will be a better bet for
floating point domination than Larabee/Nehelem combination.