Intel and AMD has announced a major partnership which will combine Intel's CPU technology and AMD's graphics. It will have a great impact on PC gaming and serious competition for Nvidia.
Read more about it: http://www.pcgamer.com/what-amd-and-intels-partnership-means-for-pc-gaming/
This is awful. There's no more competition in the CPU market anymore, so it'll all become stale.
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Yeah, that's one perspective!
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This always happens, whenever a monopoly is formed, quality goes down the drain, and corporations do less and less to please their customers. Monopolies are always bad.
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And there seems to be no other CPU manufacturer who can give any competition to these giants, so we can just hope something good will come for the consumers because of this partnership.
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Yes, but they're no longer two giants competing each other. Now they're basically the same entity. They can do whatever they wish.
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That's part of business world and things will evolve accordingly.
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Yes and no. A monopoly controls the market, and thus it is no longer free. Last time this happened, the government was needed to break up Microsoft.
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Time will determine what eventually will evolve out, at present it looks like a collaboration of technology enhancement.
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I think it's a pretty good thing.
AMD and Intel are still competing on the CPU front (Ryzen mobile was recently announced with it's Quad Core + Vega APUs) so the all important CPU competition still exists.
But with mobile graphics, if you're a laptop gamer you really have no choice as Nvidia's Pascal is easily the king and AMD have not challenged nvidia on the mobile graphics front for a very long time.
So with AMD and Intel now working together (Intel CPU + AMD Graphics) we're actually going to get some competition as AMD Graphics will finally be avaliable in laptops. That it's paired with HBM2 is a very good sign as well. It would be good to clearly know whether it's going to be Polaris based or Vega based, but I still have high hopes for this partnership.
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