Originally Posted By: Jedi Master
Yeah, nvidia pulled the same thing that AMD did when they bought ATI! Buying other companies to get access to their tech, it's downright immoral!




The Jedi Master


Umm, nVidia Buys Companies to Remove them From Competition... or to sabotage their competitors,
Not just to Acquire their tech, half their Tech is Swiped from Concepts that AMD and Other Developers from the early 90s produced. (ATi, SiS, etc)
Though, look at nVidia's Company Acquiring History as well as their "new tech unveiling" timelines.

nVidia has bought a major company almost every 10-14 months, and then later unveiled that company's assets as New nVidia tech, not just for GPUs, but for Networking, Mainboards, etc etc.


AMD didnt simply Buy ATi, let alone Buy ATi to steal their Tech,
They Acquired them w/ Permission from the Majority Stockholders from both companies, who generated the finances for the loan used to Purchase the Company.
The Stockholders Literally pushed this Acquisiion from both sides.

AMD Bought ATi, to shift their business and Offices to California from Canada,

ATi was left to Face nVidia alone when 3DFx Fell off, ATi was Based in Canada, and outsourcing Fabrication and Assembly it was causing delays and cost over-runs.

By Allowing AMD to buy them, they moved to a Company that had their own Fabrication Facilities, as well as a parent company with more money to compete directly with nVidia.

By Buying ATi, AMD now had access to Graphics Architectures to Integrate into it's Processor Architectures without having to design their own.

This was a big deal, as Intel had already Announced Upcoming Intel Chips Containing Embedded GPU's (IntelHD) Capable of Rendering etc.

AMD's APU's hit the Market a year after Intel HD enabled CPU's.

After the AMD Had some issues, AMD Separated their Fabrication Facilities into it's own Company (Now Global Foundries) and Divested it, they no longer own GF.


nVidia, Bought 3DFx Out of Bankruptcy, and inherited their debt, just to get access to tech and patents.
nVidia, Bought Ageia Out of Bankruptcy, and inherited their debt, just to get access to their Accelerated PPU and it's Code, which Resurfaced as nVidia GameWorks PhysX.
nVidia, Bought Out ULI just to force them to Terminate their Chipset contract with ATi, then sold them off.
I can go down the list of company acquisions by nVidia, and what that companies tech surfaced as under the GameWorks or



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