Quote Originally Posted by savantu View Post
Or none of those.

You see , back in 2004 , Intel had a revelation so to speak.After having problems with Prescott and mounting AMD pressure they had to act.
In typical Andy Grove fashion ( who said paranoia is dead within Intel ? :P ) the company decided to change the rules of the game :

-the future is multicore ( as in dozens/hundreds of simpler cores tightly interconnected )
-asymmetric and heterogeneous cores on the same die
-GPU and CPUs will converge
-x86 everywhere
pfff revelation my ass! All they did is watch what AMD is doing! AMD preached x86 everywhere! Intel laugh and after that sold XScale to Marvel and designed Silverthorn.
AMD designed K8 for multicore future, and Intel only started with gluing Smithfield!
AMD reviled GPU+CPU plans a long, long time ago, and when they realize they can't pull of on they own, they snatch ATI...
And now NVIDIA : well , it lacks the most important thing , a CPU division.In other words , NVIDIA is with a gun at its head and has to act quickly and decisively otherwise they're toast.So , I do think NVIDIA will buy AMD.They have to.
But they can't!
By playing the antitrust game with Intel they will get an x86 license.Similarly , Intel will probably want graphic patents.
I guess you've calculated all scenarios for AMD's demise, and found perfect formula in NVIDIA's antitrust charges against Intel...