Recent content by Evotistic

Excellent post, DemoCoder, was a good read.

Yeah the smoke demo is awesome, it's a real-time navier-stokes solver on a very high resolution grid. The other cool one is the cascades demo, all of the geometry in that is being generated from a noise seed procedually via geometry shader streamout. That's definately awesome, procedually...

Remember that this is all speculation, but I'm not saying Nvidia would attempt to enter the CPU market as a direct, discrete CPU competitor to AMD/Intel. You're right, there'd be no way they could compete on price/capacity. However, what's to stop Nvidia from putting x86 cores on their own...

I think you're missing the point here. No one is arguing about Intel wanting Nvidia.. I think it's a given that if Intel had the opportunity to aquire Nvidia, they would. What I'm saying is that Nvidia would never sell out to Intel because they are situated to become a major player *on their...

Yes, I agree that it would be in Intel's best interest to aquire Nvidia. As you pointed out though, a hostile takeover isn't going to work, and as far as a non-hostile... well as I said, Nvidia has nothing to gain, and everything to lose. The next couple years will be very intersting. Media...

There are plenty of small startups that have x86 licensing and experience... perhaps if Nvidia were to buy one? Oh wait... http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=34461 Anyway, these days, a modern shader core is *very* similar to a CPU, with several of the same challenges. At an...

There's some truth to that, however more resources aren't really the end-all. Just merging isn't going to magically let ATI take advantage of AMDs engineers, plus both ATI and Nvidia have been hiring all the best graphics people they can get their hands on, a merger isn't going to make talent...

What about the future growth of Nvidia dominating the GPU *and* CPU market, becoming a major competitor to AMD and Intel? It's not so crazy, give it 5 years. Shareholders know their potential payoff is way bigger if they hold out and stay independant.

I'd argue it's just the opposite. Nvidia is in a great position to run away with it. They are a small, nimble, proven team unencumbered by a huge company, and at least for the next year or two, will be able to make moves faster than ATI/AMD. AMD values their relationship with Nvidia, and of...

Well-said. Nvidia would never concede to a takeover, they having nothing to gain and everything to lose.