NVIDIA Will Buy ULi

by Wesley Fink on 12/14/2005 1:30 PM EST
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  • Regs - Friday, December 16, 2005 - link

    The person who states the hardware sucks is speaking in a general sense from few and in-between sources and the one that speaks otherwise to defend the product is coming from a personal perspective with little merit? Dear lord. Just end it.
  • nserra - Thursday, December 15, 2005 - link

    With this acquisition nvidia can concentrate in developing single chip designs (AMD), two chip designs (for intel and AMD), IGP (intel and amd) and professional (opteron chips).

    nvidia will be in full force.
  • Hi - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - link

    this is good for people that work at Uli, it will make sure that they will continue to have a job since Uli isnt the leader in the market and Nvidia isnt going anywhere. as for Ati if they cant build a fully functioning south bridge we might see them resort to other companies like Via or Intel
  • timmiser - Friday, December 16, 2005 - link

    I wish I had your confidence but usually when a very large company buys a very small company, the bigger company can absorb them without the need to bring on very many of the small companies employees. I doubt very much this will be good for current ULI employees.
  • Missing Ghost - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - link

    http://darthno.ytmnd.com/">NNOOOOOOOOO
  • Tanclearas - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - link

    Hopefully this transaction is not permitted, but it'll probably go through. Remember that ULi was the only company to produce an AGP/PCIe chipset. They also were responsible for providing a decent performing southbridge to pair with ATI's great northbridge. ULi seemed to be a company that recognized opportunities left open by both ATI and Nvidia, and capitalized on them with innovative solutions. Even if you would never buy ULi, I think you would still have to recognize that this acquisition will have a negative impact on the consumer.
  • Live - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - link

    I think you summed it up. As a consumer this is no good. For Nvidia it seems like a smart move. ULI were becoming a factor to be reckoned with and cooperated with Nvidias archrival ATI. If I were Nvidia I would buy ULI too.

    Big question is why didn’t ATI?

    Hopefully VIA and SIS can snap up some of the talent and get back in the game. We need more competition.
  • DigitalFreak - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - link

    "ATI has the highest confidence in our own chipset design team. Any current issues will be resolved with the release of the SB600 south bridge which is on schedule"

    ROFLMAO!
  • Griswold - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - link

    Almost as funny as people saying nvidia got their homework done with their chipsets, eh? We've all come to love the shitty SATA/PATA nforce driver quality, dont we?
  • bob661 - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - link

    quote:

    We've all come to love the shitty SATA/PATA nforce driver quality
    Mine works great. Maybe you need to check your OS load.
  • Griswold - Thursday, December 15, 2005 - link

    Ah it's Bob go figure. Guess what, it works great here too, just not with a 16x DVD burner. So I have to use the windows default driver for the PATA port and use the nv driver for SATA. All fine. Otherwise I get crc errors all over burned CD's and DVD's.

    But really, if youre ignorant enough to deny that these drivers suck, then may I gently point you at http://www.dfi-street.com/">http://www.dfi-street.com/ which is just one of the examples where a mobo manufacturer recommends to not use the nforce IDE drivers.

    And whats really sad, their IDE drivers sucked ever since the first nforce chipset. It's unlikely they will ever sort it out.
  • bob661 - Thursday, December 15, 2005 - link

    quote:

    their IDE drivers sucked ever since the first nforce chipset.
    No denying that those people have problems but my 4 computers say that there's more to it than Nvidia's drivers sucking. Also, my friend owns a computer store and ONLY uses Nvidia chipsets for his AMD builds (which accounts for 99% of his computer sales), and has never experienced a problem with nvidia's drivers now or in the past. How do you explain that? I'll give him a call today and find out how many machines he's built this year but I'm pretty sure that it's more than you and I have put together combined.
  • ShadowVlican - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - link

    but then ATi will be in serious trouble.....
  • Howard - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - link

    at least in the short term
  • coomar - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - link

    Will they start using ULI chipsets on nforce boards now?
  • Googer - Friday, December 16, 2005 - link

    This really has me worried.......
  • SpaceRanger - Wednesday, December 14, 2005 - link

    I doubt it.. Most likely you'll see ULi engineering in the nVidia chipsets

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