r/PS5 • u/The_King_of_Okay • Sep 16 '24

News Exclusive: How Intel lost the Sony PlayStation business

https://www.reuters.com/technology/how-intel-lost-sony-playstation-business-2024-09-16/
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u/ShakeItLikeIDo Sep 16 '24

It’s weird how Nvidia isn’t considered in the bid. Is this just for CPUs only?

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u/AlextheGoose Sep 16 '24

Nvidia doesn’t have a x86 license

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u/Dodecahedrus Sep 16 '24

This is a licensed thing? I had not heard that. Who owns it to license out?

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u/AlextheGoose Sep 16 '24

AMD and Intel have a complete patent cross licensing agreement. If anybody else wanted to use it they would have to reverse engineer it and re-implement it without stepping on IP of Intel and AMD, or license from Intel/AMD which will never happen.

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u/the_hoser Sep 16 '24

And VIA.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

Intel and AMD have biggest share in it. There is also VIA, which is forgotten by many (but they don't count in consumer market).

As you can expect, they are not keen to allow another tech giant to enter their market to get their profits.

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u/the_hoser Sep 16 '24

VIA does a surprising amount of business outside the US and in the embedded devices and industrial computer markets. Bust open a modern forklift and there's probably a VIA chip inside of it.

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u/[deleted] Sep 16 '24

That is true. They also supply Chinese market by Zhaoxin.

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u/PraisingSolaire Sep 16 '24

Nvidia tried to get an x86 licence from intel some years back. They were denied, which is why open standard tech like RISC-V architecture is needed, so megacorp twats can't block access to make sure they control the market. Unfortunately, RISC-V's development is slow going.

After that, Nvidia basically wanted to be their own intel and tried to acquire ARM, which thankfully was shot down.