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/thadoughboy15 May 03 '24

Lol. Now Nvidia could easily buy them. Crazy how things play out in the end. 🤣🤣

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u/Schnoofles 14900k, 96GB@6400, 4090FE, 7TB SSDs, 40TB Mech May 03 '24

For a while there Nvidia's R&D budget alone eclipsed AMD's total revenue. Things were so lopsided it was mindboggling, and things were looking pretty dire for AMD until they found their footing with later Zen revisions.

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u/Le_Nabs Desktop | i5 11400 | RX 6600xt May 03 '24

Same thing on Intel's side. It's kind of astonishing that AMD has any kind of relevance whatsoever when you put their numbers between 2010-2018 and compare them to both Intel and Nvidia.