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Mercutio
07-22-2006, 02:33 AM
http://money.cnn.com/2006/07/21/technology/amd_atitech.reut/index.htm?section=money_latest
Adcadet
07-22-2006, 04:07 PM
would this be a good thing for a consumer?
LunarMist
07-22-2006, 04:26 PM
Nothing seems to be good for the consumer any more...
Tannin
07-23-2006, 08:16 AM
Sounds like a nightmare to me. HTF am I supposed to believe that the current standout best combination for performance and reliability (AMD CPU & Nvidia graphics) won't get crippled "by accident".

Serious conflict of interest there, AMD, please don't do it!
P5-133XL
07-23-2006, 08:30 AM
I see this as a good thing. I believe it will give ATI access to smaller geometry production facilities faster than the current method of subcontracting the graphics chipset. If AMD does it right, on-board graphics technology will leap-frog Nvidia and Intel. Further direct access to smaller geometry production facilities for High performance ATI products should be producing higher speeds at lower power than Nvidia. This is a win-win scenario.

Now that is the optimists viewpoint. The possibility that AMD/ATI will screw it up royally is definately out there.
Mercutio
07-24-2006, 09:25 AM
It's official: $5.4 Billion for ATI.
Mercutio
07-24-2006, 05:59 PM
Apparently Intel is ending its use of ATI-integrated GPUs in its higher-end integrated motherboards but will continue to support Crossfire. Did anyone not see that coming?
sechs
07-25-2006, 03:53 PM
I guess Intel is going to have to go back to making their own chipsets.
ddrueding
07-25-2006, 05:17 PM
I guess Intel is going to have to go back to making their own chipsets.

Not a bad thing, IMHO. IIRC, they were never the performance leader, but set reliability standards that others strived for.
Bozo
07-25-2006, 05:22 PM
Intel was also using ATI north and south bridge chipsets.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16813121031


Guess that will come to an end too.

Bozo :joker:
sechs
07-26-2006, 02:40 PM
Not a bad thing, IMHO. IIRC, they were never the performance leader, but set reliability standards that others strived for.

As of late, I don't think that they were the reasonable-shipping-time leader either. This is why they were using ATi chipsets.