Will there ever be a 3rd GPU company?

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Or is it going to be nvidia and ati for the next 100 years?:p
 
Intel are bigger than both ATI and Nvidia in the oem market I believe. Possibly even bigger than those 2 combined.
 
Hulk said:
Or is it going to be nvidia and ati for the next 100 years?:p
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Well, there are news of Intel moving toward a high-end GPU, so they might be it. If there's a company powerful enough to be able to compete with NVIDIA or AMD, in the graphics market, it's Intel.
At this point, a small company would have absolutely no chance of prevailing against giants like NVIDIA or AMD.
 
Well, there used to be more... And there's still Matrox I think. Hmm, you know, this is like the CPU thing as well, "Will there be anything other than Intel and AMD?" or even politics, "Will there ever be more than two parties?"

I think it just gets to a point where there end only being 2 teams that can afford to stay in the running.
 
ATI, NVIDIA, SiS, Matrox, and Intel all make GPU's. So I think the question you're asking is really, will there ever be a 3rd viable GPU manufacturer.
 
in the 3d card arena we have

Nvidia
AMD
Intel
S3
Matrox
and
SIS

those all make imbedded 3d chips

Nvidia
AMD
S3
Matrox
XGI

make standalone cards

Nvidia
AMD

Make gamer cards
 
I think the high-end 3D industry naturally tends to gravitate towards an oligopoly because of the capital intensity involved in researching, engineering, and producing these cards. The barrier to entry is huge for a new company, but as someone else mentioned Intel does have the brawn.
 
S3 made a small run for the mid-range market last year when they released a few new cards. From what I remember they performed on-par with 6600's, but they came to late in the game to be worth anything.
 
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