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/oandakid718 May 03 '24

This is back in the days of nForce motherboards from Nvidia. If ATI bought Nvidia it would have led to the biggest hardware monopoly you’d ever seen

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u/0utlook R7 5800x, RTX 3080Ti, X570, 32GB 3600 May 03 '24

I had a Athlon XP 1900+ (1600+ maybe?) on an nForce 2 chipset. That hardware lasted me years.

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u/SailorMint Ryzen 7 5800X3D | RTX 3070 | 32GB DDR4 May 04 '24

You're lucky, my Athlon XP 2800+ outlived 2 motherboards.