Feb 26, 2008, 05:39 PM
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DH's Dormant Dragon
Join Date: May 2002
Location: IN Rem-Dormancy
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intel has tons of resources at thier disposal to kill anything they want..
they are essentially the microsoft of the hardware portion of the industry imo...
It's just a matter of them choosing to do what they want and seeing emediate gains from it.
And considering that intel probably wouldn't want nvidia to start with.. it'd be to much of a mass mess of crap to work with to go through a hostile take over just for them... and obviously amd/ati is outa the question...
leaving only via's gpu department which is essentially dead atm which intel hasn't ever looked at as far as i know.
Bitboys??? have no clue there at all..... that's age old now.. hell probably didn't remember thier name right
PowerVR, which is still a working right along in the shadows.. producing mostly mobile graphics chips (they design them, and get someone else to fab them).... one of thier biggest winners in the liecensing is intel.
PowerVR is the only thing i can think of that would likely bring great interest to intel in terms of a powerhouse gpu. PowerVR's TBR will still blow the doors of anything nvidia or ati could spit out while using 1/4 or even less the horse power. Considering that overdraw is getting higher, this is where tbr excells.. and it gets bigger bonuses yet from FSAA and Different filteirng methods. (i miss my kyro 2 hercules 4500 card.. it would scream around the geforce 2 gts and ultra like they were snails... with specs that would seem like the mx series was monsterous)
It's to bad STMicro dropped powervr kyro lineup like a rock....... But alas, nothing better then a absalutely amazing and steller comeback.... which i've been waiting for... for years....
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