Nvidia Wants to Make its Chips Inside Intel's Factories

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[citation][nom]Tomfreak[/nom]If thats the case then Nvidia should have been offer up their graphics technology to integrate Nvidia GPU into Sandy/Ivy bridge or future Intel CPU? After all the only reason people going for AMD APU is their GPU performance which Intel are lacking horribly.[/citation]
nvidia will kill the way they invade in mobile PC line by doing this, nvidia can do it them self by their tegra 3~4 with Windows ARM, the future of mobile computing will have 2 lines, AMD Fusion for x64 and Nvidia Tegra for ARM, leave intel in the high end desktop line which require discrete GPU from both AMD and Nvidia.
 
[citation][nom]Tab54o[/nom]Not a chance. I don't think intel will go for it.[/citation]

The problem is that you are creating assumptions. It's possible that they will never do so. However, if the situation warrants then of course they would.
 
[citation][nom]trumpeter1994[/nom]As interesting as a merging of the two might be, I seriously doubt it would happen. I love both companies but they both seem to be very adamant when it comes to the purchasing of/merging with another company. Not to mention that if two powerhouses like Nvidia and intel started working together I doubt it would go to far as the FCC would probably fear a monoply much like they did when AT&T attempted to purchase T-mobile.[/citation]
thats because GM owns part of them!
 
I think really that intel could help nvidia fab wise for at least there gpus probably not SOC, since alot of laptop have optimus which can only work on intel chips, and pretty much ever high end desktop has intel as well so that would help as well.
 
Considering the fact that Intel frequently had to buy integrated graphics solutions from other companies, it would be a good idea to integrate something more competitive into their processors, like nVidia GPUs, in order to beat AMD's APU chips.
 
I wonder why AMD has not built more GPU technology into their CPU chips.

Maybe Intel might beat them to it. From what I understand, GPU currently exists in Sandy Bridge and later this year, Ivy Bridge, but it isn't that great. Certainly not good enough for gaming.

To hell with it being a monopoly or not. It would be great for technology. Of course, government and politics might just hold back innovation. What's new?
 
Intel graphics is not just poor on gaming, its flaw on driver then the lack of 23.976 fps support for blu-ray is a a serious flaw that still exist in Ivy bridge. Hats part of the whole reason why most common forks who like to use to movie playback opt AMD APUs over intel's. u can ask the HTPC builder, many of them either go for AMD APU or intel sandy bridge + a discrete GPU.
 
[citation][nom]JOSHSKORN[/nom]I wonder why AMD has not built more GPU technology into their CPU chips.Maybe Intel might beat them to it. From what I understand, GPU currently exists in Sandy Bridge and later this year, Ivy Bridge, but it isn't that great. Certainly not good enough for gaming.To hell with it being a monopoly or not. It would be great for technology. Of course, government and politics might just hold back innovation. What's new?[/citation]
I think AMD are pushing ahead with their heterogenous computing in the near future, where GPU cores are finally leveraged to augment the CPU.

[citation][nom]madjimms[/nom]Actually there's plenty of car companies that team up to produce a vehicle, like GM & Suzuki both producing Geo, Toyota & Chevy... & plenty of other companies, one makes the engine & the other makes the body! makes perfect sense to me.[/citation]

I can see where you're going with this, however there's far more players in the automotive industry. For example, when Peugeot, Citroen and Toyota launched the 107/C1/Aygo (same car, for all intents and purposes), there were plenty of rivals such as the Chevy Matiz, Ford Ka, Fiat Panda and so on.
 
[citation][nom]Brandon S[/nom]That would make two great companies even greater![/citation]
Two great companies that were spotted doing stinky practices regularly. It would make a wonderful Shitzilla that would own us good and hard and those of us, who wanted this merger, would really deserve it...
 
Possibly the GPU's but intel wont touch the other areas as they are in direct competition with their own products. Kind of fun to se nVidias Ceo wanting to do that considering it was not to long ago he said he were opening a can of whoopas on intel... Altho from a consumer perspective a dieshrink of the already insane 680gtx surely seems appealing, lower price and heavier performance. Would also help intel sell more cpu's and gaining both from manfacturing as well as more sales. Would help revitalize the pc gaming further.
 
This would be huge for Nvidia to get, at least assuming Intel lets them use the latest fabs rather than some of the older ones. Their process lead is still at least a year to 18 months I'm guessing, that would be a huge head start over AMD. Or, maybe they let both Nvidia and AMD use them, resulting in better chips all around.

With that hopeful thought though, I think Intel will be more picky with who gets to use its fabs, and which fabs it lets them use. They may keep 22nm for themselves but let others use their larger fabs.
 
[citation][nom]Zingam[/nom]In the mobile area you have much more established companies than NVIDIA: Qualcomm, TI, Samsung, which are comming up soon with products better than Tegra 3.[/citation]
people will more likely to buy nvidia in the computer world, just like when the day they making nforce cheapset which kill many others old chipset maker, and intel are worried and ban them for producing it on core-i platform......
 
Intel would have to be insane to produce chips for Nvidia. There are plenty of companies they could fab for if they wanted to sell spare capacity.

They are direct competitors in HPC(Knights Ferry) and mobile(Medfield) markets.

 
Intel could do this if nVidia promises to stop selling Tegra. Intel won't do this for ARM products obviously. Who knows, they may even make the same deal with AMD. We'll manufacture your chips if you produce only x86 products. They could really stick it to ARM pretty nastily.
 
Hmm... this brings up a funny scenario in my head:

Step One:
Intel lets Nvidia use their Factories to make GPU's.

Step Two:
Intel "magically" releases Larrabee and smokes every product on the market.

Step Three:
Nvidia and AMD are reduced to dirt since they can't compete with Intel.

Step Four:
Intel's spies laugh their assess off.
 
This speaks volumes about Jen Hsun's perception of how much of a bottleneck nVidia's dependency on TSMC is.

It seems there are currently only 1 or 2 fabs in the world (Other than Intel), and they can't come close to meeting the demand. I'm surprised nVidia don't just bite the bullet and start their own fab then sell spare capacity.
 
[citation][nom]s3anister[/nom]The problem is that you are creating assumptions. It's possible that they will never do so. However, if the situation warrants then of course they would.[/citation]


I can say it will never happen.
 
One of Intel's big advantages is owning their own foundaries. I would think that it would be to the advantage AMD or Nvidia to build one of their own as well (barring the huge cost of creating one of course.)
 
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