What if intel bought amd?

[Exeon]

As someone who buys from NVIDIA exclusively, please no.

I don't want another 2000 series to ever happen.

 

Competition between AMD and NVIDIA is always good for us.

This has been one of of the better generation of cards, and the competition is so tight this time around that it'll bring us better products and better prices next time around.

 

The RTX 2000 series were priced at whatever Nvidia wanted because we didn't have a high end alternative.

 

So yea no, actually it would be better if there was a 3rd party that made competitive GPU's

[Mark Kaine]

3 hours ago, Eigenvektor said:

If AMD died and Intel became a monopoly, regulators would break the appart, to stop them from being a monopoly. Which is why it isn't in Intel's best interest for AMD to cease to exist.

same goes for nvidia / amd btw, interestingly...

[Master Disaster]

5 hours ago, SupaKomputa said:

okay, what if nobody buys them? do the government let them die? naturally creating the monopoly?

Intel practically owns the monopoly of x86 code in the first place, if it weren't for the 386 / 486 shortage that forced them to distribute the code for the clone companies. 

What?

 

Cyrix & AMD (plus others) were cloning Intels X86 CPUs with no license. Some were architecturally identical, others were clean room reverse engineers (called compatibles rather than clones).

 

Intel tried for years to stop it, it culminated in a court case in the mid 90s in which Intel were forced to grant AMD an X86 license and in return AMD would pay Intel royalties for using the architecture.

 

This was around the time Intel launched the Pentium range, they had renamed it to Pentium and called the X86 extension MMX because they couldn't secure a trademark on 586 due to it being a number. AMD & Cryzix both cloned the Pentium anyway and called them 586's. Intel sued, the court agreed that AMD couldn't just use Intels technology for free but also ruled that Intel couldn't stop others from using X86 since it was now the defacto technology. X86 licensing was created and AMD were granted a license as part of the courts ruling. This is why AMDs first CPU to not use the x86 nomenclature was called the K6, it came after the 586.

[Drama Lama]

5 hours ago, Totality said:

What if intel bought amd pls let me know what you think

they wouldn't be allowed to

if they somehow were able to do it ,it would be a huge mess because especially in the CPU space it they'd have everything twice. If then they decided to take  the AMD's R&D team's knowkegde there would be lots of stuff the intel engineers don't have experience with and need a lot of time to understand