CONFIRMED: NVIDIA to acquire VIA

ThraxThrax 🐌Austin, TX Icrontian
edited April 2009 in Science & Tech
CONFIRMED: NVIDIA to acquire VIA

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  • the_technocratthe_technocrat IC-MotY1 Indy Icrontian
    edited April 2009
    old.
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited April 2009
    Watch out Intel and AMD... :thumbsup:
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited April 2009
    This major, MAJOR news!
    old
    The speculation/rumors were old. The confirmation is not old.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2009
    This is huge. NVIDIA in x86, Intel in discrete GPUs... Mass hysteria!
  • UPSLynxUPSLynx :KAPPA: Redwood City, CA Icrontian
    edited April 2009
    Dogs and cats living together!
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited April 2009
    This is really an around the world tour for VIA's CPU division, formerly "Cyrix." Cyrix' original CPU enterprise was a fabless design shop, contracting with Texas Instruments and IBM for production. In 1997 they merged with National Semiconductor. Then in 1999, IIRC, National Semiconductor sold Cyrix, or at least the technology to VIA. Now, in 2009, humble little Cyrix, bearing the VIA name, gets moved along again. In the mid-90's before I started building my own computers, I had a custom shop upgrade my first and only only branded desktop computer (Packard Bell) from a Pentium 100MHz to a blazing fast Cyrix 200P :hair:. It was a 166MHz chip but rated by Cyrix as comparable to a 200MHz Pentium. When AMD started their '+' ratings when they were exchanging megaherz blows with Intel's Pentiums a few years later, the tech press would often deride AMD for taking up Cyrix' tactics. There was a major difference though, and that was that AMD's claims were generally accurate.
  • ThraxThrax 🐌 Austin, TX Icrontian
    edited April 2009
    PS, April Fools.
  • GnomeWizarddGnomeWizardd Member 4 Life Akron, PA Icrontian
    edited April 2009
    u blow
  • QCHQCH Ancient Guru Chicago Area - USA Icrontian
    edited April 2009
    ;D You should have heard the IRC talking about which prank to pull... and how to help support it.... :D
  • LeonardoLeonardo Wake up and smell the glaciers Eagle River, Alaska Icrontian
    edited April 2009
    Well! :rolleyes:

    I'll just pretend it's true. It's a cool story anyway! :O
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