r/pcmasterrace • u/AaronDotCom • May 03 '24

TIL AMD almost bought Nvidia before settling with ATI in 2006 News/Article

https://www.forbes.com/sites/briancaulfield/2012/02/22/amd-talked-with-nvidia-about-acquisition-before-grabbing-ati/?sh=7ced24a87a79
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u/This-Requirement6918 May 03 '24

I remember this back in the day and was so glad they didn't. I also had a very sour taste in my mouth with AMD in the early 2000s with their stupid hot CPUs.

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u/Zaziel AMD K6-2 500mhz 128mb PC100 RAM ATI Rage 128 Pro May 03 '24

Early 2000’s AMD CPUs were killer? Athlon hitting 1ghz and beating the P3 in gaming. Then soon after in 2003 we get the Athlon64 with 64-bit and built in memory controller that gave them another big boost to performance. 2010-2017 RIP AMD though.

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u/not_a_gay_stereotype May 03 '24

AMD64 absolutely clapped intel's cheeks when it first came out. They dominated with the phenom series until core2duo showed up. then AMD totally shit the bed with the FX CPUs until ryzen came around. however, I always ran AMD since 2003 until present.