arstechnica.com — Now that the merger is official, AMD has a set of pages up with information on the combined company's future plans - enable the combined company to compete on the corporate desktop, and system-level CPU-GPU integration. They also mentioned die-level CPU-GPU integration.
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m2ys4uJul 24, 2006
ATI n AMD = DAAMnIT!
fsapoJul 25, 2006
I just hope they wake yu now and give a better linux support, cause its where ATI sux, i traded a Radeon 9800pro for a TI4200 cause the radeon just sucked on linux.
tgunnerJul 25, 2006
Maybe since AMD and nVidia were so close, nVidia said: ""Hey AMD, your sales are doing pretty good.... why don't you go and a.... buy up that "ATi" company please?"" and AMD was like: "...alright..." hehe, but in all seriousness, I don't think that a company we have all grown to love for being the open minded under-dog will go and all of a sudden turn into another Intel.
hellfire51Jul 25, 2006
I think that this could be bad for consumers. Sure, I look forward to this nice "integration" between CPU, GPU, and chipset, however, if AMD and ATI are paired like this the battle will go from ATI vs. Nvidia & Intel vs. AMD to ATI+AMD vs. Intel+Nvidia. It will mean rather than video cards competing with other videocards and CPU's competing with other CPUs it will be more about the entire platform as a whole. Mismatching may become useless because there will be a performance hit when you try and pair an AMD CPU with an Nvidia card because it wont be "integrated" together.
ingemannJul 25, 2006
Almost same thing. The two companies merge after AMD the company buys ATI equity from shareholders. So it is a takeover, but they call it a merger as it inflects fewer negative feelings among customers and employees. Usually top level management of the acquired company is paid to stay on (mother)board for a given period, and then leaves to find other/better jobs. Just like Compaq management did after the acquisitions by HP and Veritas management did after the acquisition by Symantec.
noneloudJul 25, 2006
"in the end it doesn't matter because you won't have a choice"Sure you do. There's always Intel with their soon to be released quad-core chips.
kylegoetzJul 25, 2006
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