It's Official - AMD Buys ATI

FrankNFurter writes "It's been a rumour for several weeks, but now it's confirmed: AMD buys ATI. What implications is this merger going to have for the hardware market?" In addition to AMD's release, there's plenty of coverage out there.

Tomorrow

[glebd]

Intel buys Nvidia. Let the war continue!

Probably Not Going To Happen...

[FinchWorld]

... But hopefully they'll kick the ATI driver team up the arse and get a decent set of drivers out (for Windows and Linux).

I'd say I told you so....

[Groo Wanderer]

But I did.
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=32 197 [theinquirer.net]

        -Charlie

AMD & ATI

[digitaldc]

AMD combines with ATI and has announced a new name for their company:

DAAMIT!

Our Plan for Take Over

[Anonymous Coward]

1) Adobe buys Macromedia
2) AMD buys ATI
3) Intel buys nVidia
4) We buy Adobe, AMD and Intel

- Microsoft

Re:Maybe

[Linker3000]

"System on a chip or at least integrated GPU and CPU cool."

A die holding an AMD core and an ATI GPU may be 'neat', 'fab', 'brill' or even 'ace' - but 'cool' - I think not!

Re:Makes me uneasy

[quakeroatz]

"ATI's products tend to be miserably supported"
Oh tell me more, NVIDIA fanboy! Tell me a opposing tale of the wonderful NVIDIA happy land, with a gumdrop house on lollipop lane!

Re:Maybe

[Slashcrap]

I like 3D accel, but I'd be quite happy with an unaccelerated frame-buffer - just as long as is stable.

Go into your xorg.conf and change the "Driver" line to "vga" or "vesa".

You now have an unaccelerated frame-buffer display that will be as stable as the day is long. It will also suck donkey cock, but it is exactly what you just asked for.

Nvidia

[larryau]

They should have bought Nvidia instead.
Nvidia Fan :)

Re:Maybe

[drinkypoo]

Well, if that's the only thing stopping them, we should be in luck. In a month or two they should be able to pick up SGI at the flea market for five bucks "but only if you take that stack of documentation, too."