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Roph · Local time: Jul 24, 2006, 10:04 PM

AMD merges with ATI

Originally Posted by FiringSquad.com

With today's ATI-AMD merger announcement this morning, many have wondered where this leaves NVIDIA and their line of nForce chipsets. We just got off the phone with NVIDIA's Derek Perez, Director of PR, and he confirmed that NVIDIA will indeed continue to produce chipsets for the AMD platform. In fact, NVIDIA sees this merger as an opportunity to grow their business.

AMD certainly comes across as more friendly on the open source side of things, so at least maybe this will finally spark some decent Linux support from ATI.

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Stealth · Local time: Jul 24, 2006, 03:37 PM

Didn't AMD buy ATi? That's not a merger.

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Inhert · Jul 24, 2006, 05:13 PM

yep AMD bought ATI for $5.4 billion in cash and shares.

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Omnislash124 · Jul 24, 2006, 05:41 PM

So, is this a good thing? Does it mean we'll be seeing ATI chipsets for integrated graphics in most AMD computers? Will ATI be just as strong a contender for high-end gaming graphics chips as before, or is NVIDIA now a clear step ahead of all other graphics chip producers?

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Inhert · Jul 24, 2006, 05:44 PM

we don't know how it will turn out for now...

I was speaking idiomatically.

RushJet1 · Jul 25, 2006, 09:40 AM

Originally Posted by Omnislash124

So, is this a good thing? Does it mean we'll be seeing ATI chipsets for integrated graphics in most AMD computers? Will ATI be just as strong a contender for high-end gaming graphics chips as before, or is NVIDIA now a clear step ahead of all other graphics chip producers?

huh?? i think we'll see ATI chipsets for integrated graphics and ati-chipsets in general a lot more. AMD probably wanted to get back into the chipset business since intel can make their own chipsets (remember, AMD used to, but they stopped during the athlon xp era).

i think this could strengthen ati's position - they have access to new technology (and hopefully some power-saving techniques - their graphics cards are really hot-running).

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?

Alai · Local time: Oct 13, 2006, 04:58 PM

ATI is also a fabless company. They do not fabricate their own GPU's and therefore rely on a third party. Dedicated fabs, like AMD's State of the art fab in Germany and the new fab in NY means more reliable and cheaper chips. Also, AMD has a bright future with lots of growth potential. It was a battle for AMD against the endless pockets and marketing of Intel, but now that they have an undeniable market presence and gamer following, there can only be good things to come. And as Rushjet said, chipsets mean alot for AMD. Not only on the desktop side either. Having dedicated chipset support means alot for enterprise and server customers that rely on faultless operation 24/7. Having greater chipset support provides better reassurance for customers in the corporate sector.

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