New just in, from Willy.More as we get it.There is a strong word on the street is the deal with AMD is "on." However the question that we are now trying to answer is to find out what the deal entails, since it might not be a clear total acquisition and there might be another twist to this "rumour"..
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Odd, considering ATi's ties with Intel.
Interesting. Could be (as some rumours have it) a deal to just share fabs or something.
Not if you look at it from AMD's point of veiw it just sweetens the deal.Originally Posted by krazy_olie
Aren't ATI fabless?
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... they used to have their own Fab on their campus in Toronto - they then moved to a Fabless buisness model
So maybe they're going to start using AMD fabs as well?
All stories come true in the end...
and here
Core 2 Duo E6600 @ 3.2Ghz (400Mhzx8) 1.52V (set in bios, 1.47v real) | 4GB GeIL PC6400 4-4-4-12 | Gigabyte DQ6 @ 1600Mhz | HD2900XT 1GB | Enermax Infiniti 720W | Silverstone TJ07-B with custom watercooling | BenQ FP241WZ
3dmark05 - 13140 | 3dmark06 - 6698 | SuperPi 1M - 15s
I still say it will end in tears for graphics enthusiasts down the road! Mark my words! Mutter, mutter, grumble, grumble. . .
Don't see why - AMD are opening new FABs to get more capacity and at least this might mean ATI has a better supplier than it has enjoyed (endured) recently
I have no idea where the money would come from, but AMD could certainly use some additional income of ATI, since the profits from processor sales won't look good for the 2nd half of the year
Perhaps ATI are trying to jump up another level fabrication wise seeing as
graphics cards seems to be one generation behind cpus when it comes to feature size.
I don't like the sound of this. There are already enough politics involved between Intel and graphics card vendors regarding SLI support on different chipsets. If AMD and ATI link up it would get much worse. I would prefer as much transparency and choice as possible so that is it easy to compare the performance of CPU x vs Graphics Card y. I believe this would reduce competition overall.
This deal would prove to be interesting, one would assume focus on performance with ati cards with amd processors, could be good in terms of performance, but certainly narrows down your choices
Its a done deal
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