AMD and ATi merger

Dyre Straits · August 14th, 2006, 01:33 PM

Almost all of the market reporting is referring to this as a 'buyout' and not as a 'merger'.

Even AMD executives are debunking the 'merger' terminology and calling it a 'buyout'.

I'm still not that comfortable with the whole thing as I still see some conflicts of interest. However, I'm sure the AMD fans are quite happy with it. Although, I would have thought they'd be more inclined to be disappointed that it wasn't nVidia being acquired.

If the ATI 'brand' can continue uninterrupted, I'll be quite pleased....and very surprised.

zme-ul · August 14th, 2006, 07:39 PM

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Originally Posted by mybsides

A question just came to mind: Do you think Intel will make "NEW" chipsets compatible with ATI? Wouldn't that be kinda like a conflict of interest...?

That's not an issue ... the GPU manufacturer has to take decision to support CF or SLI on other chipsets (like nVidia now, supports SLI only on theis chipsets).
The major conlict will come between nVidia and AMD
if AMD will start selling mobo's under their brand there will be some major market cut from nVidia's point of view

chuff425 · December 13th, 2006, 03:12 PM

It can only get better, hopefully

ZhengHe · December 27th, 2006, 01:30 AM

I really couldn't care less about this merger, so long as it does not affect the overall quality of both companies in any significant way. As for some of the combined products they were thinking of creating it's not something I would go for in any case, so the overall feeling from here is indifference.

Big-ADR · January 1st, 2007, 08:13 PM

I don't care about this, because I don't like AMD anyway.

But I'd like it, if nVidia and Intel would merge, because I only use Intel CPUs and MOSTLY nVidia GPUs.

slugbug · January 6th, 2007, 08:55 PM

I haven't been a fan of ATI since they screwed me on an ebay auction 2 years ago. They advertised non existant stock and then made everyone wait for about 6 weeks before finally refunding money. The exchange rate had changed during that time and I was out about $20.

IModIntel · January 6th, 2007, 09:53 PM

I answered WTF. Considering that the best AMD chipsets were always made by Nvidia, I would have though they would have merged with THEM, not with ATI. And just to piss them off, I will continue to use my favorite combo: Intel & Ati.

Lighters · March 11th, 2007, 01:15 PM

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Originally Posted by S31Kronos

I like it. Besides, better AMD than Microsoft, we'd probably end up with genuine validation on the drivers or something else foolish

lol, then we would all be scr*wed haha

Personally i think its a good move but i relaly have my doubts

leontan · July 10th, 2007, 02:49 AM

This could be VERY interesting. ATi and AMD were talking about integrating GPU's directly on the CPU Package...