One major reason why. The Sherman Anti Trust act. Intel faces big problems with their prior conduct and additionally Alberto Gonzales is no longer the Attorney General. Most news organizations consult a ouija board for legal advice so no wonder they messed up.

Who's to argue that anything is possible this day in age? Several respected publications all over the world probably swore up and down that they'd gnaw their own graphics cards in half if AMD bought ATI in light of the fact that AMD was probably too broke to buy ATI and they paid more than they were worth. What happened? Its quite the interesting article, lots of interesting points. I'm guessing those that disagreed with the ideas also hated Nick Farrell to begin with from his hilarious Apple rants.

He sure does generate some passionate thinking amongst us, just like Charlie did, so everybody chill the eff out, the world isn't ending.

This has less chance than the proposed AMD-nVidia which foundered on two counts. First, Justice would not give clearance as there would have been no real competition in the AMD motherboard chipset market as required by the Herfindahl-Hirschman index. DOJ antitrust manual:http://www.justice.gov/atr/public/testimony/hhi.htm nVidia's motherboard chipset business would have had to be spun off or sold for the deal to go forward. Then you had Jen-sun's ego problem. Neither were solvable. Intel has two major problems under H-HI. Graphics and Intel motherboard chipsets. Remove those two and what is left of nVidia? AMD motherboard chipsets. An Intel purchase starts with three strikes against it.

Only to get it's patented technology and then spit the bones. They have no need for another development team, an oversized PR department and the megalomaniac, delusional CEO, the Dear Leader Jen Hsung.
Larabee was not canceled, it's alive and kicking, but now a HPC part only. Too much delays made it not competitive against AMD and nVidia offerings. But Larabee 2 (if not so awfully delayed) will be definitely head on competition and debut on GPU market.
Apple has no intention to buy nVidia, they actually are dumping the green solutions on their high end segment, lower end to follow. Not to mention that they don't need another black shirted man with jeans...
Dear leader would not let go of nVidia until it's stone dead. When AMD prospected nVidia for buying, the deal didn't happened because he demanded to be the CEO of the new company, talk about crazy sh*t...

Intel may be out eventually once everyone moves to cloud and ARM processors or some variation. This may diminish the need for everything x86.

Fwat the huck are you smoking, chappie?
ICM* buy Nvidia?
In case you forgot, ICM is being sued by the FTC for illegal use of its monopoly power against AMD and... wait for it....
_NVidia_
Get a clue, mate.
*ICM=Intel Criminal Monopoly

Seriously? Firstly Nvidia have just got done with 2 years of making faulty chips, which in the two most important sectors you've highlighted, mobile and high end(well Larabee's competition) have been failing like crazy on the mobile side, and completely and utterly uncompetitive in a cost/production manner in the high end for the past year, and seemingly the next year aswell.

So Intel want to spunk several billion on Nvidia, for a horrible track record in reliability, one of the single key reasons(that when not paid ;) ) people like Dell and the likes love an Intel platform top to bottom and people like HP and the more server oriented market, again love Intel due to reliability. So Intel want to hammer their reliability record buying out a company with a horrible recent track record of making competitive and profitable parts, who've shown zero capacity to plan for the future, who've shown no capacity for adapting to the current situation. AMD saw TSMC were, lets be honest, balls and subsequently went on to make a lower clocked more paralel less process dependant part, Nvidia think bigger is better, despite every single indication saying bigger and higher clocks will get harder with each new process.

So in your opinion, Intel want to spend billions on a failing company that haven't made a truly great part in 3 years, have a design team with no balls to make key decisions, who have a truly disgusting reliability record thats worsening by the day(and any monitoring of tech forums might indicate the desktop bumpgate problems might just be starting to surface with LOTS of 8800's seemingly starting to die).

Why exactly, because Intel have killed off Larabee................ except they haven't. They recognised that their current larabee isn't fast enough to compete as a gpu, and said lets sell the CURRENT larabee as a gpgpu and continue making the next gen larabee with a little more experience. They've already been through a few generations of Larabee at newer processes with more cores and tweaks each time behind closed doors, they have decided this version won't be sold as a GPU and are moving on to the next one. So they haven't actually killed Larabee, are about to wipe out Ion2, Nvidia chipsets, the entire Nvidia low end when Intel and AMD both make intergrated low end in their cpu's. Nvidia's high end is unprofitable and their midrange for 2 years has been based on the previous generation, more expensive hotter and missing features compared to AMD. So Intel want to buy Nvidia, at a huge cost, so they have a decent last gen midrange part?

Because we'd lose competition in the marketplace. BUT, if they do I hope Intel does the same thing nVidia does when it buys companies. Just sweep them under the carpet only to remove competition. To hell with innovation, it's all about the money baby!

Aparently Apple is looking to buy Nvidia

Nvidia is worth $10B and Apple has nearly $36B cash in the Bank.

At recent meeting with Nvidia's CEO he praised Apple and stated all his home computers are filled with Apple Kit!!!

Buying Nvidia would give Apple the ability to differenciate its computers from standard PC manufacturers. With super high spec graphics cards compatible with OpenCL GPU acceleration.

If this rumor does happen Nvidia will probably ony supply Apple with GPU's and not other PC manufacturers!!!!!!!!

This is why Intels Lanabree was canceled, as not to piss off Apple as they are one of intels biggest customers. And do not want them to switch to AMD!!!

It would benefit Intel greatly and might even benefit consumers, provided that they retain the Nvidia driver team.

I shudder to think of Intel writing video drivers for the cards that have served me well in countless hours of gaming enjoyment.

On second thought, if Intel bought Nvidia, it was probably time I switched to ATI cards to begin with!

If i was Intel I wouldnt touch NV.

Openly lieing and faking releases. They have spent the last 6 months constantly rebranding "old" gear as "new" 3 series chips. Hell the old 9600GT's beat their new 3 series.

Fermi is late, hot and already cut down.

While hunting a laptop that would run games for a friend i had to spend ages narrowing choices down until i found a nice little table that exposed the rebranding. Eliminated most of the laptops instantly.

Just wish ATI would get Fusion/Dragon going in laptops. They would make a killing. Laptop gaming on Intel is pathetic. Unfortuatly, NV is making it just as crap on theirs.

Nvidia continue to fail to execute upon their graphics designs. Intel may find that it spent billions to find that the cupboard is bare.

Intel will need to re-engineer the Nvidia semiconductor process work to suit Intel fabs or send work to its competitors. That process work at Nvidia seems to be in some disarray, so it's not like Intel has a firm foundation to work from, it's likely to find itself fixing design errors too.

Dear Leader's tendency to open cans of whoop-ass and launch faked-up hardware makes it difficult for a purchaser to rely upon the statements of the company about its progress.

I've no idea whether Intel are considering buying Nvidia for not. But it seems to me that the risk is so high that only a low-ball offer is possible, and such a low price may not suit an Nvidia deluded about its actual sales position.

2025: world+dog still on a GF260c216, albeit with a looooot of cache.

It surely must suck to be Intel these days.

Read my lips Otellini: Y.O.U.B.O.R.E.M.E

without that "fool", advancing of 3d graphics, gaming and gpgpu would be a disaster, if left to the hands of intel & amd alone.

you should kiss that fool's ass and stfu.
you drink his water and eat his bread, noob.

I pray to the heavens that Intel will purchase the Green Goblin and get rid of that fool who currently runs it.
It's the most prudent thing to do.

Intel still does not need to purchase Nvidia. It is not cost effective and their cop cultures might be a problem for one... Intel's main market, the CPU space, is still going strong. It will leverage what it currently has to be effective in the HPC market. HPC will be a market Intel will need to stay competitive in, but I think Graphics will continue to be an after thought until they manage to make use of the Larrabee they invested so much in.

Now with the govenment involvement in Intel's practices, it could make it possible for Nvidia to enter into the x86 market either directly or through cooperation. I image if the opportunity arises, they would focus on the budget or low power market first, or perhaps work on a hybrid x86 like AMD fusion and build an x86 that is strengthened further by GPUGP co-processing functionality. But far be it that Intel will do anything to buy Nvidia. Nevertheless, if the market thinks this, Nvidia will benefit with a little stock booster.

You do not question the Drashek, you only bask in his wisdom.

It would be very great for intel to buy nvidia the chipzilla would be gpuzilla too.
i think that possibility is really plausible as amd bought ati.
intel may want to even the odds.
Finnaly intel could crush amd in every segment.

momemtum is dicated by today's starting pitching...

nvidia doesn't have a next gen part on store shelves. once they do, they'll be just fine because the speed junkies will want it, the scientists will want it, the folders will want it. and they will buy it.

Once more for the english audience please.

Does anyone know:

a) what translator he uses, and
b) what his native tongue is?

For (b) i think it isn't of this earth...

Nvidia must Have More Projects Tha'll we'll ever Know. Took XP As Far As Vista, in merging, with more xp, is my impression.

Have Enginneering Skill, Have More importantly Legal Board of Inquirierly. thetrueINQ. Crossover AMD & Intel Make Nvidia Strong , triking between Platforms, Making More Good than most.

Ultee' BIG, us small. nvidia & Jens, BIG. In Netsettablapmobidesk TOP World, Nvidia Does their Part.

drashek

@DarkElfa: THANK YOU SO MUCH for that comment - I'll have that image in my head until deep into next year!

Wow. Can you imagine working for a real company, with a roadmap, quality engineers and the ability to deliver new products every year?

I'd love to join up, only problem is "What would I do with all my old re-branding pens ?"

I'm off to butter my buns, ready to enjoy the full salami :~)

I'll give credit where its due. this article made way too much sense. Its like little pieces were just falling into place. I smell hostile take over. Jen is tossed after investor buyout, then Intel has people put out little cartoons showing Jen on the street with a little sign that says "Will piss off Intel for food."

NVIDIA will be gone soon when Intel has made NVIDIA running out of money.

The devil probably wants to consolidate his power. Not necessarily from a profit standpoint, but from a "Let's see how dishonest I can make 'em" standpoint.

And for those of you who don't believe in the devil, I'm sure you can take that part out and still appreciate my point. :)

Article quote: "If Intel had Larrabee the FTC would oppose a buyout of Nvidia by Intel on antitrust grounds."

Intel still has the lions share of the graphics market, even if it is integrated. Do you really think that dropping Larabee will help?

If you make enough predictions you'll eventually see some of them come true. The ones that don't come true will be spun to be 'close enough'.

Like a dirty politician.

NEVER !!!

All these rumors are from people who have severe lack of vision and don't know how the companies will progress.
Probably why they are part of the tech press and not running a tech company.

Both companies have roadmaps for years and both will be standing as the years go by.

yrs from now we'll still have the same rumors

Glad the author recognizes it's never gonna happen