TIL AMD almost bought Nvidia before settling with ATI in 2006

[u/AaronDotCom]

https://www.forbes.com/sites/briancaulfield/2012/02/22/amd-talked-with-nvidia-about-acquisition-before-grabbing-ati/?sh=7ced24a87a79

[u/Minimum-Risk7929]

Probably a good thing for consumers they didn’t buy Nvidia because I could only imagine how much of a monopoly AMD would have with Nvidia’s resources.

Quite the blunder for AMD retrospectively.

Edit: you guys have alot of great input and the market would look IMMENSELY Different if AMD acquired Nvidia, it may be that Intel buys ATI for less than AMD would have and dominates in Console APUs. However my perspective is Jensen Huang would have eventually overtaken AMD as the official CEO particularly when reading,

*"AMD’s first target: Nvidia. But Nvidia Chief Executive Jen-Hsun Huang (see our January 7, 2008 cover story on Nvidia "Shoot to Kill") insisted on being chief executive of the combined company, according to a former AMD employee (Nvidia declined to comment for this story)."*

this is probably the reason Hector Ruiz declined Huang's terms as he would have been a threat to his authority in AMD, and why they went with ATI instead.

Also looking at Dirk Meyers performance of AMD it seems like having a Taiwanese Electrical Engineer is themeta as both Lisa Sue and Jensen Haung are both those. Thanks

[u/Suspect4pe → u/Minimum-Risk7929]

We don’t know that Nvidia would have done as well under AMD. It could be that where they are now is where they would have been.

[u/Cute-Pomegranate-966 → u/Suspect4pe]

Well if the terms were successful we know exactly what Nvidia would have done as Huang would have been CEO.