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Microsoft Has Acquisition Deal With Nvidia
- tobylane 15y agoI looked around and I can't find out what "Microsoft may have first and last rights of refusal to purchase the stock" means. First is where you must be offered the same deal before the seller can try elsewhere, but last doesn't mean anything. The news is rather dull, it sets Nvidia up for less takeover possibilities, or a lower price. I hope they're getting a lot of money out of this, rather than it was just a sign of devotion to get the deal to make the Xbox chips (which they didn't).
- wmf 15y agoNvidia did make the GPU for the original Xbox. Because MS was just buying chips and had no IP rights, I suppose they worried that someone could have bought Nvidia and decided to stop selling Xbox parts to MS.
- rbanffy 15y agoAn acquisition of Nvidia by Microsoft would be very unfortunate for the market... Let's only hope Microsoft does not decide to buy ARM.