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Nvidia Is Trying To Make an x86 Chip

Posted by timothy on from the if-all-your-friends-built-an-x86-chip dept.

Slatterz writes with a story from PC Authority which says that "Word has reached us that Nvidia is definitely working on an x86 chip and the firm is heavily recruiting x86 engineers all over Silicon Valley. The history behind this can be summarised by saying they bought an x86 team, and don't have a licence to make the parts. Given that the firm burned about every bridge imaginable with the two companies who can give them licences, Nvidia has about a zero chance of getting one."

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  1. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    it means that intel+amd have over 9000 patents on integral parts of an x86 cpu

  2. Re:Ripped from The Inquirer by HeLLFiRe1151 · · Score: 5, Funny

    Maybe they cross license with each other.

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  3. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    You think it's funny until you see my Wolfenstein 3D benchmarks.

  4. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    What would happen if you pushed turbo on THAT thing?

  5. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 5, Funny

    Yeah, well the "It Stopped Being Funny The First Time It Was Used" meme stopped being funny the first time it was used.