There have been a lot of rumors going around lately about the state of Nvidia. One such rumor caused a late rally in Nvidia's share price earlier this month according to Bloomberg.com.
There's no doubt that Intel did a belly flop into the kiddy pool with what could have been a great alternative to the green/red team when they scaled back the intent of Larabee from a general purpose/gaming GPU to a workstation GPU and as of yet have been unable to touch Nvidia's Quadro or ATI's FirePro.
There's also no doubt that Intel, with a market cap of $110 billion has the cash to buy Nvidia if they wanted to. Nvidia's market cap is just over $6.8 billion. Certainly nothing to scoff at but it is not out of reach of Intel. Intel would also gain control of Nvidia's fabrication plants giving Larabee a huge kick start.
To make matters more confusing Apple is rumored to be interested in Nvidia as well. It may have to do with the fact that Apple uses Nvidia in their notebooks although they did just switch over to ATI for their desktops.
Rumors will always be part of the tech world so there is bound to be every manner of theory and paranoid conspiracy related to what will happen to just about every company. I personally do not believe Nvidia is hurting as bad as people say but who knows what is going to happen. Money makes the world go round but it makes me a bit anxious to think about what this will mean for the current low prices that we are experiencing with mid to low end cards if a potential powerhouse like Intel is at the reigns
Thoughts?
There's no doubt that Intel did a belly flop into the kiddy pool with what could have been a great alternative to the green/red team when they scaled back the intent of Larabee from a general purpose/gaming GPU to a workstation GPU and as of yet have been unable to touch Nvidia's Quadro or ATI's FirePro.
There's also no doubt that Intel, with a market cap of $110 billion has the cash to buy Nvidia if they wanted to. Nvidia's market cap is just over $6.8 billion. Certainly nothing to scoff at but it is not out of reach of Intel. Intel would also gain control of Nvidia's fabrication plants giving Larabee a huge kick start.
To make matters more confusing Apple is rumored to be interested in Nvidia as well. It may have to do with the fact that Apple uses Nvidia in their notebooks although they did just switch over to ATI for their desktops.
Rumors will always be part of the tech world so there is bound to be every manner of theory and paranoid conspiracy related to what will happen to just about every company. I personally do not believe Nvidia is hurting as bad as people say but who knows what is going to happen. Money makes the world go round but it makes me a bit anxious to think about what this will mean for the current low prices that we are experiencing with mid to low end cards if a potential powerhouse like Intel is at the reigns
Thoughts?
