AMD Nearly acquired Nvidia in the early 21st century
TapTechNews July 6th news, Hemant Mohapatra released a series of tweets yesterday, indicating that in the early 21st century, AMD almost acquired Nvidia.
Mohapatra worked at AMD for more than 6 years in the early 21st century and helped design CPU, APU and GPU products and shared his experiences during this period.
He said that from 2002 to 2008, AMD was led by electrical engineer Hector Ruiz, who was the company's second CEO and took over from AMD founder Jerry Sanders.
AMD acquired graphics card maker ATI in 2006 for $5.4 billion and renamed its products the Radeon graphics card series.
Sanders wanted to continue to acquire Nvidia, but Jensen Huang rejected the acquisition offer and proposed the condition of becoming the CEO of the combined company and realizing hardware and software lock-in through the CUDA architecture and Nvidia chips.
During Sanders' tenure, AMD did not consider Nvidia to be a peer-level company like Arm and Intel. Mohapatra believes that the reason why Nvidia has achieved today's results is inseparable from Jensen Huang's spirit of fearing no difficulties and continuous efforts. TapTechNews attached the relevant pictures as follows:
