With Intel and AMD moving toward microprocessors that combine the CPU and graphics on the same piece of silicon, Nvidia could see its chip-set business disappear. However, Nvidia could also start making its own x86 processors to target both mainstream PCs and low-end mininotebooks, according to one analyst.
– In the coming months and years, Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are looking
to change the way the world thinks about computing by combining the CPU and
graphics on the same piece of silicon.
In 2010, Intel
plans to release quot;Arrandale, quot; a microprocessor that combines a
32-nanometer m…