AMD Bought ATI :! PIC Link inside ;)

Since I know almost nothing about tech, I must be well qualified for wild speculations:

* AMD and ATi may share knowledge and experience of 65nm fab tech (whenever AMD manages this), so maybe that will slim down the ridiculous double decker cards ATi has been producing at the high end. -by decreasing power consumption and heat output.

* AMD and ATi will possibly release some kind of Opteron/FireGL graphics workstation? Actually, that's not what Opterons are for is it? Told you I was unqualified.

* Maybe ATi will go "X2" and start making dual GPU "Crossfire on a single card" cards. But would they need AMD's help for that?

* Maybe this AMD Torrenza thing means that in the future an ATi GPU will be just that - a GPU that slots into a socket in the mainboard beside the CPU and communicates with it via HyperTransport instead of PCI Express. I have no idea if there is any indication as to whether this would not be pointless or not not. :?

* And maybe you could put a CPU and GPU side by side on a 4x4 mainboard. Maybe the GPU could be dual core (single die Crossfire) or quad core - 2 for graphics, 2 for physics

* Maybe Conroe and GeForce 8 (or 9) will still cream them. Actually, I consider myself to be both an AMD fan and an ATi fan. But I liked them independently and am a little saddened that they are going to do the whole "blobs melding together to form bigger, more 'formidable' blob" thing.

* Maybe ATi, in the spirit of AMD, will suddenly slash prices on all their VPU's ...

The Times, , let's put a real news link up.

Yup, we needed INQ to confirm this.

Yea, they'll do that with their stupidness.

I agree. ATI is having a good run right now, hopefully AMD won't interfere. I honestly can't see them doing anything drastic with ATI. They're smart enough to see that ATI is doing well and you shouldn't mess with a good thing.

The GPU with be integrated into the multicore CPU:
http://www.tgdaily.com/2006/07/24/amd_acquires_ati/

don't listen fto gman as he knows damn all.

AMD aare not going to cut nvidia off. that would be foolish. they have and will continue to offer customers great flexibilty. to screw their consumer base would be commercial suicide.

both nvidia and AMD know business is business and they need each other.

I think it's awesome how AMD and ATI will develop CPUs that do everything from video to sound. If done right that would be the better deal in the end although upgrading video, if even needed, would be a pain.

Word.

i don't think it matters what you want a comp for unless it is very basic, you arew always going to want more powerful components or at least more features. it is like ATI gfx cards. the x8xx series can beat some x1xx series in games but people will still buy the x1xx series for features.