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Nvidia grabs Stexar folk

Coup with huge implications
Mon Sep 18 2006, 20:41
WE TOLD YOU about Stexar shutting its doors a while back, or at least, letting the vast numbers of its people go.

The question is where these engineers with x86, graphics and set-top box experience ended up. Welcome to the first announcement of the Nvidia Portland Design Center.

It looks like Nvidia scored a coup by hiring many if not all of a cohesive design team that hits many of the company's weak spots. The obvious things like STBs and phone chips are what NV would want the Stexar folk for, but a bunch of ex-Intel x86 folk could have some very interesting implications.

No, make that shatteringly huge implications. µ

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