ARM-based desktop computer ? (Hybrid computers ?: Low + High performance ;))

[GMAN]

I don't think so. Yes, AMD bought out ATI four years ago, so now produces
ATI graphics hardware in addition to (and sometimes combined with) its own
hardware. But AMD surely realizes that NVIDIA remains a very popular maker
of graphics hardware,

Not after their GPU and chipset fiasco. I sit here with a HP tx1000 that cost
over $1300 years ago , that now will not boot due to fried nvidia hardware.

There are endless people suffering from this. Dell/HP/ even Apple have laptops
with this hardware in them.

 

[MitchAlsup]

I'm pretty sure AMD has allowed nVIDIA to integrate its GPU to AMD
processors especially family 10h core. The main cause was Dirk Meyer hates
Intel.

I do not believe that nVidia has integtrated with AMD chips, it is a
surprisingly difficult engineering effort withness the delay from ATI
acquisition to integrated chips.

The main cause 'for' buying ATI was that sooner or later the low end
processors were/are going to need a 'pretty' powerful graphics engine,
and these are not really candidates for either multi-core nor
daughtercard graphics which add too much cost (to the low end). This
decision was primarily Hector's and Dirk is just trying to make the
best of what landed on his plate.

Mitch

 

[nik Simpson]

No, AMD believes competition is good. AMD wants to secure discreete GPUs
market by allowing nVIDIA to do its own APUs.

There's a big difference between allowing NVidia graphics cards and
chipsets to work with AMD processors, and allowing NVidia to do an
integrated CPU/GPU. The former that just requires a functional PCIe
implementation, that latter is a major engineering project.