Quote Originally Posted by god_43 View Post
hmm i think you are right.....wow wtf, ftc couldn't even make it easy for nvidia to obtain a license...this settlement is a bunch of fail! damn i had high hopes, that the market would finally be corrected....ftc chairmen are probably sporting new expensive cars at intels expense...
There is a flip side to that though, if someone were to buy out via, and intel didn't extend the x86 license to the purchasing party for any reason, it would look bad for them. They may have the cash, but I think they are walking on eggshells at the moment and know it. This is all speculation, but it will be interesting to see how it plays out. I'm with you though, I'd like to see nvidia buy out the rest of via and start producing an x86 chip, if only to force AMD and Intel to continue to innovate.