As much as NVIDIA's stock fell, the company as a whole is still worth more than double of what AMD is worth today. The shocking part is that AMD has more debt ($5B) than what NVIDIA is worth today (4B). AMD has no financial power to buy NVIDIA.
You're right that other companies, such as...
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AMD vs NVIDIA stock after AMD acquired ATI
Do you know that the parent company of ATI is worth less than half of NVIDIA? AMD has a debt of close to $5 billion and has only $1 billion in cash, and is losing more than $1-billion A QUARTER? NVIDIA on the other hand has $1.2 billion in cash with virtually no debt, and is losing only $0.15...
When Intel signed the agreement with NVIDIA, they were losing to AMD in the CPU business. The gaming PCs those days were all AMD CPU with NVIDIA GPU(s). NVIDIA only made chipsets for AMD CPUs, and they had this unique SLI feature (at the time). So Intel went to NVIDIA to ask them to add SLI...