Nvidia would cost $10 billion to buy

[Das Capitolin]

Far more expensive than ATI


By Fuad Abazovic in the Bosnian wilds: Thursday 27 July 2006, 17:03

PEOPLE who don't understand US monopoly laws speculate that Intel might buy Nvidia now that AMD has proposed buying ATI.
Well, while it is not impossible it is very highly unlikely and not just because of the antitrust impications. Nvidia would simply cost way too much. ATI was a bargain, and very cheap for what AMD was getting. AMD paid peanuts to get this once great company and if you want to reach for Nvidia you would have to dig much more deeply into your pocket.

You would have to spend at least eight billion dollars to buy the currently-available Nvidia shares. Of course, you have to add some incentive on top of the price so we are talking about close to 10 billion dollars for this green-loving graphics company.

Intel could afford it, of course, but it has to solve some in-house problems first. Ten billion is a fair wedge, but not for a company as big as Intel. However, the US SEC would never approve such a merger anyhow.

With Nvidia’s market share in desktop, mobile and integrated graphics chipperey added to Intel's dominant share in the integrated graphics arena, the company would far excede fifty per cent of the overall market and would instantly be branded a monopoly threat.

Intel is already being investigated about the anti-trust behaviour so it can't just go out and add some more oil on fire. µ

Sourced here: http://uk.theinquirer.net/?article=33298

[GIBSON]

To be honest, I don't quite see intel merging with nvidia either. Even if they'd be willing to pay that much, and if they'd get SEC approval, I'd doubt the nVidia CEO willing to sell the company. He's known for his agressive competition and I don't think he would be willing to give the company out of hands.

[Scott]

I do not see Jensen ever selling his company. He has a vision and that vision can only be filled with him and his team at the helm.

[tomato]

Yeah, and then NVidia would be forever recognized with everything Intel and could lose its unique corporate identity... As AMD is not as well known to the mainstream populace (see any AMD commmericals lately? How about an Intel ad?), ATI will not get consumed into the AMD IP.

[Kougar]

Yeah, and then NVidia would be forever recognized with everything Intel and could lose its unique corporate identity... As AMD is not as well known to the mainstream populace (see any AMD commmericals lately? How about an Intel ad?), ATI will not get consumed into the AMD IP.

The only Intel ads I see on TV are from DELL... now AMD did produce a ad/video they are bannerizing all over the net though, Arstechnica and THG were full of it just a day or two ago.

As far as whomever thinks Intel will now consider buying nVidia, they obviously are not current on Intel's current strategies, US anti-monopoly laws, nor the computer market itself. Intel has been currently focusing on the core CPU & chipset business by selling or spinning off other aspects of their business right and left and trying to trim the fat. Intel sold off their discrete graphics business back in 1999, and they obviously have no use for nVidia's chipset fabrication or technology. :roll:

[tomato]

The only Intel ads I see on TV are from DELL...


True enough, but they're still out there and out in full force... I also happen to remember seeing that Intel logo & jingle everywhere when the new Mac's were released with Intel processors... that commercial was everywhere!

I'm not saying that AMD isn't "out there", but Intel is sure as heck pushing their product alot more than AMD.

[Kougar]

True enough, but they're still out there and out in full force... I also happen to remember seeing that Intel logo & jingle everywhere when the new Mac's were released with Intel processors... that commercial was everywhere!

I'm not saying that AMD isn't "out there", but Intel is sure as heck pushing their product alot more than AMD.

I sure won't disagree with that! If it has an Intel chip and it's avertised anywhere then they'll going to be playing the jingle and the rest of it... Intel has the cash to throw into it though, and AMD is rather strapped for the stuff at the moment I think... ;)

[GIBSON]

I sure won't disagree with that! If it has an Intel chip and it's avertised anywhere then they'll going to be playing the jingle and the rest of it... Intel has the cash to throw into it though, and AMD is rather strapped for the stuff at the moment I think... ;)
I actually thought that was pretty funny a year or so ago. The intel cpu's were well, sucking, and then you see this commercial on tv with afterwards this big "intel inside" screen with the jingle. While I was like, uhm, I wouldn't be bragging too much with that. (Might have been for laptops with pentium M's though, that would explain the bragging)
And well, indeed, intel has no reason to get into the gfx market as they are making enough profits as it is with there cpu's and chipsets. They'll only want to dip into graphics if amd were to come out with one of them cpu and gpu in one package kind of things, and still. Intel would probably be watching from a distance to see if they have any success.

[Kougar]

Intel got rid of the discrete graphics side of their business, and they'll not be bringing it back anytime soon. They are currently going to release a integrated 3000 and X3000 graphics, so if they had any interest of trying to combine a CPU with a GPU, they would still of have plenty of opportunity before now... Intel seems purely focused on further developing their core CPU business though, even to the point most people have to wonder what on earth were they thinking with their current chipset strategy....