Tuesday, March 18th 2008

NVIDIA in Acquisition Talks With VIA?

According to DigiTimes, sources at motherboard manufacturers are reporting that NVIDIA and VIA have held talks regarding a possible merger. Apparently the companies discussed three possible scenarios: a strategic alliance, NVIDIA acquiring just VIA's processor division and NVIDIA acquiring the entire company. However, it looks like no deal has been made yet due to VIA setting too high a price, although negotiations are expected to continue given that VIA is making losses at the moment. VIA has denied these claims, commenting that its main business is still focused on X86 CPUs and chipsets and therefore it is unwilling to give up these segments. It's not so long ago that rumours were circulating that NVIDIA may be planning a bid for AMD, although nothing has come of that story so far.
Source: DigiTimes
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36 Comments on NVIDIA in Acquisition Talks With VIA?

#26
jbunch07
btarunrNo, NVidia has concrete plans of over-taking Intel.
ya know i was actually thinking this a few years ago...i wonder what it would be like if intel and nvidia merged like ati and amd did....now that would be interesting!
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#27
candle_86
if they did that, AMD would be bankrupt. but Nvidia has bigger plans, if they can make VIA a subsidy, license the SSE instruction sets from Intel. They already have the bus licesnes for 775 or AM2 so they could pick either platform literly.
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#28
jbunch07
nvidia is gonna f'in take over the entire computer market, sounds like there planing a monopoly...ha no not really but damn they r hungry these days...they just cant get enough can they!
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#29
Cuzza
Via is awesome nvidia can go home i've had enough of their trash.

But really what should happen sony and microshaft need to team up to destroy google.
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#30
jbunch07
CuzzaVia is awesome nvidia can go home i've had enough of their trash.

But really what should happen sony and microshaft need to team up to destroy google.
Sony and Microsoft...thats very unlikely
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#31
JrRacinFan
Served 5k and counting ...
Microsoft in movies too then?! That could be bad....

"You haven't paid your Live subscription to watch this movie, you will now be banned!"
"My PS3 now crashed, I have to re-install Windoze"

Sorry, I could not resist. :roll:

Now nVidia and Intel on the other hand would be rather interesting, although I do not see it happenning.
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#32
jbunch07
JrRacinFanMicrosoft in movies too then?! That could be bad....

"You haven't paid your Live subscription to watch this movie, you will now be banned!"
"My PS3 now crashed, I have to re-install Windoze"

Sorry, I could not resist. :roll:

Now nVidia and Intel on the other hand would be rather interesting, although I do not see it happenning.
haha thats funny!

but seriously...if sony and microsoft merged i think it would be bad news for everyone!
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#33
cdawall
where the hell are my stars
want to know my favorite part of via they have reused SB KT8237 for years so i can always find driver updates and it continues to hold its own with newer and newer tech. If NV takes over merges whatever please don't let that change!
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#34
jbunch07
cdawallwant to know my favorite part of via they have reused SB KT8237 for years so i can always find driver updates and it continues to hold its own with newer and newer tech. If NV takes over merges whatever please don't let that change!
nv only cares about money and power! greedy bastards :D

oh and where did your stars go?:wtf:
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#35
JrRacinFan
Served 5k and counting ...
LOL @jbunch, thats his new custom title for 5k posts! You like it? I know I do!

Greedy is the word! Now you realize why the color used in most of their logo's is green!
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#36
jbunch07
damn! 5000 post! ive got some work to do...jk but yea its pretty cool!
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