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| | (Post a comment) » AMD-ATI Acquisition InterviewWith today's dramatic announcement that AMD would be acquiring ATI for $5.4 billion, we were eager to hear why AMD felt this move was necessary, particularly with ATI. Over the course of the interview we got quite a few interesting responses. Read all about the origins of the merger and ATI and AMD's future plans, as well as those of NVIDIA and the reaction of the game development community in today's article! |  Previous news article | Back to main news | Next news article  |
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 Afterburner (37)   Jul 25, 2006 - 05:40 pm
| I think the benefit for AMD in this deal would be the media, mobile, integrated graphics, chipset and handset markets, all of which AMD is either not competing in or not competitive to Intel. Since ATI has extensive experience and relationships in these areas it would benefit AMD. The benefits for ATI in this deal would be a closer relationship with AMD and inside knowledge of interfacing with their processors. The nForce chipset for AMD processors literally made Nvidia a force to be reckoned with (Pun intended) and which ATI has played a distant second fiddle. Since Intel makes their own chipsets there is not much room to grow in that relationship.
The most interesting thing to watch as far as I am concerned would be what the OEM's like Dell, HP, Lenovo think of the deal. AMD could not compete with Intel in that arena as Intel provided a "complete solution" of processor, chipset, graphics, that the OEM's are looking for. Now that AMD has a chipset and graphics business and will be able to provide a "complete solution" we might be seeing AMD powered Dell computers in the near future.» Login to reply to this |
 LBJM (78) Jul 25, 2006 - 05:05 pm
| | well ATI video card drivers better get improved out of this crap. support opengl and linux and be serious about it. » Login to reply to this |
 alexandertyler (70) Jul 25, 2006 - 12:02 pm
| » What about consoles?
I wonder how this will affect the console arena considering ATI is making the graphics chips for the XBOX 360 and Wii.
Exciting times.
Later,
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