[STEAM] Intel decided not to buy Nvidia in "fateful moment" says report

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Intel buying Nvidia, but the board resisted it, according to a new report. Back then, in 2005, AMD and ATi were two separate companies, and Nvidia was primarily a gaming GPU maker, rather than the AI data center behemoth of today. Having one of the top GPU makers in Intel's stable could have changed the PC landscape as we know it, perhaps with Intel CPU designs containing integrated Nvidia GeForce GPUs.

If this had happened, we wouldn't just be looking at a very different landscape when it comes to the

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battle, but also the

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war. At this time, the mooted price for

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was reportedly $20 billion, almost four times the $5.4 billion total AMD paid for ATi with a mix of cash and stock, while

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itself was worth around $150 billion.

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