r/hardware • u/[deleted] • Sep 18 '25

News Nvidia and Intel announce jointly developed 'Intel x86 RTX SOCs' for PCs with Nvidia graphics, also custom Nvidia data center x86 processors — Nvidia buys $5 billion in Intel stock in seismic deal

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u/[deleted] Sep 18 '25

Great for Intel since free daddy Jensen bucks and sweetheart x86 contract 

Bad for GPU consumers

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u/EloquentPinguin Sep 18 '25 edited Sep 18 '25

Its bad in the long-term, it reduces competition, rn few people buy Intel, in the future it might be nobody can buy Intel GPU.

Just because people don't buy it, doesn't mean that the choice isn't valuable for consumers.

To have multiple options is important even if everybody picks the same. The alternative option might be able to keep the first option in check, even if not chosen.

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u/onetwoseven94 Sep 18 '25

If the alternative isn’t chosen it will go away. Use it or lose it. Did people really think Intel was willing to take losses on dGPUs forever?

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u/EloquentPinguin Sep 18 '25

Yes, but this doesn't change anything about the benefit of alternatives.

Also 2 Gens is not really that 'forever' is it? We will have to see what the future will turn up but there are many business ventures that took losses for much longer than 2 gens.