And more power efficient to boot.

When is NVIDIA next gen due ?

Either later this year or early next year depending on which rumor site you choose to believe.

I've even heard rumors that early next year will be the Quadros and Teslas, gaming cards in late next year.

Volta V100 is already on sale in NVLINK/DGX form factor, they've been handing out the PCIE to researchers for a while now during events and it will go on sale in about a month.

Will Intel buy NVIDIA ? Stay Tuned !

Comedy option: Intel makes the offer and Jen-Hsun demands to be CEO of the resulting company again.

(for those not in the know: AMD made an offer to buy out NVIDIA a decade ago, and it fell through for that reason, NVIDIA's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang demanded to be CEO of the resulting company. The funny thing is that he would have been a much better CEO than Dirk Meyer or Hector Ruiz, but Ruiz was not about to give up his CEO seat. AMD ended up buying ATI instead.)

Double comedy option: Intel agrees to it.

Now, what would be the name of the new company ? nvintel ? intellidia ?

Nah, you're missing the obvious here. Now that AMD has THREADRIPPA and EPYC, the way has been cleared for other 90s-gamer-chic names.

The merger of Intel and NVIDIA would obviously result in a company literally named "Chipzilla".

They partner with rapper DMX for a new promotion for their next series of Extreme Edition chips, Jen-Hsun walks onstage to the tune of "-X gonna give it to ya". As a snub to the Vega t-shirts, everyone in the audience receives a free Coffee Lake-X leather jacket.

They can't afford them.