Jen Hsun Huang new CEO of AMD?

[regilsolon]

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June 16th, 2011 at 3:36 pm - Author Jules Rumours are flying thick and fast out of California today about something that the industry has considered impossible for two decades.
A merger of two companies that have been sworn blood enemies. Could it be true? KitGuru genuflects and prepares to utter sacrilegious words.
Lordie, lordie

Spoiler! 

• nVidia invented the modern 3D card as we know it.
• ATI brought us DX9.
• nVidia brought us AMD chipset mainboards.
• AMD delivered 64-bit computing to the masses.
• nVidia innovated with SLi and dual-GPU graphics.
• AMD allowed CrossFire to work with a mainboard’s integrated graphics processor.
• nVidia came down from the mountain with DX10.
• AMD delivered on DirectX 11.

At the same time as these companies have been innovating hard and fast in every sector they touch, one thing is certain.
Intel is pulling in ever increasing revenue.
In fact, given how closely all of these companies are to each other, Intel manages to avoid competing with either AMD or nVidia in many areas of the market. Even if you add in ARM (through its relationship with nVidia), you still don’t really get a significant cross-over.
Does it seem natural for all the companies that ‘are not Intel’ to form into a single organisation?
If they did, how would that work?
Well, financially, AMD has a lot more turnover than nVidia – so it would be natural for them to take the lead.
But, after combining AMD with nVidia, how would you sort out the CEO’s position?
Well, let’s imagine for a second that nVidia has one of the smartest CEOs on the planet. Now let’s also imagine that AMD has no CEO at all.
Might not be that hard to integrate. If that were the case.
If this came off, then it would represent a landmark moment in the development of the indus

Spoiler! 

KitGuru says: Will we see the nVidia or AMD logos being moth-balled around the middle of 2013? Which teams would stay and which would be ferociously culled because ‘both companies were wise enough to insist on SAP – so now their individual functions can be integrated/devolved’. Like the man said, may you live in interesting times.

Jen Hsun Huang new CEO of AMD? | KitGuru

[thewicked46]

this is crap...u knw this would never happen.

[bossdak]

abi nakog april 1 ron.

[mickopono]

How to Eliminate Competition : Buy Them.
Works every time.

[siopao1984]

either you will loose competing... or you will be bought out by your competitor

[poldopunk]

AMD buying Nvidia is way, way, way, far off. There are antitrust laws in the U.S. that prohibits this. As for Jen Hsun Huang as CEO of AMD; development and marketing between CPUs differ a lot when compared to GPUs which means his learning curve would be losses to AMD's development cycle, imho.