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Shared software, shared processes
Dana Blankenhorn & Paula Rooney
February 22nd, 2008
...The question is why Nvidia would want the tsuris of trying to buy AMD. AMD, after all, owns ATI, a rival graphics chip maker which Nvidia was slowly grinding into powder before AMD swooped for it...

2 posted on 02/23/2008 8:28:51 PM PST by SunkenCiv (https://secure.freerepublic.com/donate/___________________Profile updated Tuesday, February 19, 2008)
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To: SunkenCiv

>>...The question is why Nvidia would want the tsuris of trying to buy AMD. AMD, after all, owns ATI, a rival graphics chip maker which Nvidia was slowly grinding into powder before AMD swooped for it...<<

Wow... so this would leave us with only one important video manufacturer and one compatible processor company - that’s not unlike Hillary Clinton’s theory of lowering costs with a single provider - in the real world monopolies lower competition and increase prices while stifling innovation.


6 posted on 02/24/2008 8:59:08 AM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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