Today on Digg I read an article called NVIDIA CEO: “We’re Going to Open a Can of Whoop Ass” that made it to the top 10 for the day.  This article summarizes the ongoing war in discrete GPU technology in which Intel has chosen to play the role of the sleeping giant.

It’s easy to jump in here and be speculative on how Intel is going to make its splash in the market, what isn’t easy is trying to predict where the market will be in 1 – 2 years.  Having been a PC gamer for several years I have the sense that in the coming months AMD will be courting a buyout (just look at their financial state) and that Nvidia will be one of the big names interested in a takeover.

The repeated attempts by AMD to take back the performance crown from Intel in the CPU realm have been met with Intel releasing newer, faster and less expensive architectures.  Each of these releases has been aimed toward unseating AMD’s position in everything from budget chips to the high end enthusiast chips.  With the news of its CTO departing it seems that AMD is on the ropes and more ripe than ever for a juicy buyout.  Only time will tell but if we see a merger this year I don’t doubt that Nvidia would be interested in acquiring its historically largest competitor.

Posted on April 13th, 2008 by Furious Citizen
Filed under: Industry News, Technology