AMD buys ATI!

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2006-07-25 06:09am

I thought retiring in forty years was being optimisitic!

Drooling Iguana · Post by **Drooling Iguana** » 2006-07-25 09:52am

What's AMD's Linux stance? Might this merger mean that we're actually going to see some half-decent Linux drivers for ATI cards?

Uraniun235 · Post by **Uraniun235** » 2006-07-25 09:57am

Arrow wrote:Arthur, you're raining on my parade. Your views are conservative, and will probably be proven more or less correct, but I still want the one chip that does it all, pumping out insane levels of realism in my games. Oh, and I want the whole computer to clip on (so its upgradable!) the back of a 30" monitor, running at 15 megapixel resolution. And I want it ten years from now.

Oh well, maybe I'll have it when I retire forty years from now...

Why does it matter whether it's one chip or fifteen that does it all, so long as it still performs well?

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2006-07-25 03:02pm

Uraniun235 wrote:Why does it matter whether it's one chip or fifteen that does it all, so long as it still performs well?

Cost. I want max performance for minimial dollar cost. Generally, fifteen chips will cost far more than one chip.

Arrow · Post by **Arrow** » 2006-07-25 10:19pm

atg wrote:It seems that Intel has pulled ATI's chipset license.

Apparentely means no new ATI chipsets for Intel processors after the end of the year.

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Anandtech is reporting that ATI's bus license is still good. Its conceivable that AMD/ATI will continue to produce Intel chipsets after the merger is finalized, since AMD and Intel already share information about processor instruction sets (MMX, 3DNow, SSE and the like). It'd be funny if AMD made Intel chipsets, and Intel turned around and started making AMD chipsets (probably not going to happen, but still!).