Why Intel and AMD

[peteroy]

Why Intel and AMD don't make GPU for video cards?

I think it will be surprsing that if a chip company will make video cards.

AMD and Intel at their start (and even now) didn't make chips for computers only, so why not make chips for video cards?

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[Tavelkyosoba]

cost at market share is my guest.

it would cost a ton of money for R&D to catch up to ati and nvidia...

and then when they do, its somewhat of an economic rule that there can be competition by only 2 parties in a large market. so amd and intel probably would be beat by ati and nvidia just because they're the two heavy standers.

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[endyen]

I thought that Intel was the #1 gpu maker? Just because most are integrated, doesn't mean it dont count.

 

[Crashman]

Intel makes (made?) the i740 video chip. It's probably still available somewhere for some application, but mostly it was a developement bed for their integrated graphics.

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