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fierydemise

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Yes I know it is from Daily Tech and there is a pre existing thread but after more then a month of rumors it looks like it's going to happen. Daily Tech article
About a week ago xbit wrote a nice piece on possible implications. Here
What do you guys think of this? What do you think the possible implications will be? Who wins, who loses? Now, I don't want this thread derailed by fanboys so if you want to flame, don't.
EDIT: Anand's comments in his blog. Here
 
Kromis

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Woot! Anyways, I'm all for anything with benefits. If the merge of AMD and ATI lowers price and other stuff, I'm all for it!
 
Sonikku

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Yeah, read about it on gamespot. This would have been a HUGE edge for ATI if Conroe didn't exist.

But it does.

Nividia is bound to get lot's of love from conroe and intel, even if they no longer will from AMD.
 
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Oh? Why didn't one of the new Intel chipsets for Conroe allow Crossfire, but not SLI?

This is pretty interesting though. 4x4 + Crossfire? That's a lot of horsepower....
 
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fierydemise

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Originally posted by: Sonikku
Yeah, read about it on gamespot. This would have been a HUGE edge for ATI if Conroe didn't exist.

But it does.

Nividia is bound to get lot's of love from conroe and intel, even if they no longer will from AMD.
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Actually I think the opposite (read the xbit article), ATI is doing well right now and should help AMD cushion the fall from Conroe, plus AMD will be able to create a business platform which they can push over netburst, as more cost effective because of lower power draw. ATI still has crossfire able conroe chipsets so they don't lose out there and nVidia has AM2 chipsets so they won't really lose out, the I doubt we'll see major repercussions with chipsets for a while possibly until the next chipset revisions.
 
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^Not really, AMD cannot become big player without this or similar acqisition. CPUs are going to become even cheper, as the battle between intel and AMD intensifies.
 
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Nice. Now an American firm will own ATI. Thats great news for the USA, as profits will come back here.

Overall I believe in staying lean and mean as a company, bigger isnt always better without proper management.
I never thought of ATI or AMD as having the best management, nor decent marketing from either. So prob not the best possible merger in the world.

It would make sense for Intel to purchase Nvidia now.
Best of both worlds, Nvidia + Intel! I'd be all for that, my next rig was going to be C2D + NV anyway.
 
KeithTalent

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Originally posted by: Crusader
Nice. Now an American firm will own ATI. Thats great news for the USA, as profits will come back here.

Overall I believe in staying lean and mean as a company, bigger isnt always better without proper management.
I never thought of ATI or AMD as having the best management, nor decent marketing from either. So prob not the best possible merger in the world.

It would make sense for Intel to purchase Nvidia now.
Best of both worlds, Nvidia + Intel! I'd be all for that, my next rig was going to be C2D + NV anyway.
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n7

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Originally posted by: Crusader
Nice. Now an American firm will own ATI. Thats great news for the USA, as profits will come back here.
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It's sad to see a large Canadian company bought out.

Originally posted by: Crusader
Overall I believe in staying lean and mean as a company, bigger isnt always better without proper management.
I never thought of ATI or AMD as having the best management, nor decent marketing from either. So prob not the best possible merger in the world.
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What a shock you'd think that :roll:

Originally posted by: Crusader
It would make sense for Intel to purchase Nvidia now.
Best of both worlds, Nvidia + Intel! I'd be all for that, my next rig was going to be C2D + NV anyway.
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ROFL :laugh:

I am amazed at this comment.

I think i'll just quote this for others to rip apart, since it's hilarious.

 
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fierydemise

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Crusader, Intel doesn't need nVidia it is a very different situation. AMD and ATI both have something to gain from this, but in an intel nVidia merger only nVidia would gain. nVidia would give intel highend GPU's but intel could just as easily get into the highend GPU business if they wanted to they have the resources, and nVidia gives intel chipsets but intel already has their own perfectly good (albeit expensive) chipsets.
 
KeithTalent

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Edit: per fierydemises's request...though I stand by my original comment!!!
 
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Yuck! what a sad day this is for long-term AMD supporters (I've never owned or sold an Intel cpu and never will), to be saddled with the likes of ATi...

Nice way to reward nvidia too after lending AMD platforms sorely needed credibililty with the nForce chipset ( a huge reason why AMD struggled prior to AthlonXP was to dire chipset situation AMD owners were forced into).
 
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fierydemise

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Keith, please I don't want this to turn into a usual video flamefest so will you edit your last post, no reason to turn this into an argument of who is/isn't a troll.
 
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I wonder why AMD chose ATi over NV. NV did really help AMD with nforce chipsets and also with features like SLi. Although AMD would get lots of profit from handheld and such, i dont really see why they selected ATi. Feature wise on chipsets NV dominates. ATi realies alot on 3rd party chips like the SB.

I dont like this news AT ALL. Less Competitors mean less products to choose from which is a loss to us consumers.

Well, it kind of funny how the companies who cant market for cr%& came together (AMD and ATi) compared to intel and Nvidia.

Does this also mean NV is seen as a serious threat by AMD and Intel?

Im going to bet we are going to see a NV CPU in the near future.. :laugh:
 
GTaudiophile

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Well, what's the worse that could happen?

AMD and ATI could merge. It could be a bad idea. Both companies could cease to exist in 12 months!

It will be especially important for ATI, given the tight 9-month product launch schedule, that they do not allow this merger to delay R&D/rollout. They could easily fall one generation behind from nVidia.
 
Keysplayr

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Isn't this just a merger, not a buyout? From what I have heard, AMD does not quite have the broccoli to buy ATI outright.
 
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