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ATI and AMD Seek Approval for Merger? 229

Posted by Zonk on Friday July 21, 2006 @06:36PM from the curiouser dept.

Krugerlive writes "The rumor of an ATI/AMD merger/buyout has been out now for sometime. However, this morning an Inquirer article has said that a merger deal has been struck and that the two companies will seek shareholder approval on Monday of next week. In the market, AMD is down as a result of lackluster earnings announced last evening, and ATI is up about 4% on unusually high volume." This is nothing but a rumour at the moment, a point that C|Net makes in examining the issue. From the article: "AMD has always boasted that it only wants to make processors, leaving networking and chipsets to others. AMD does produce some chipsets, but mostly just to get the market started. Neutrality has helped the company garner strong allies."

Comment And how is this different? (Score 0) 160

by bulldog2260 on Tuesday July 12, 2005 @09:22PM (#13049563) Attached to: Lenovo to Sell Blade Desktops

How is this different from existing thin client setups, i.e. Sun Ray's? I realize that this uses blade servers as opposed to regular machines, but still.

Journal Journal: Debates

Journal by bulldog2260 on Tuesday November 04, 2003 @01:02AM

Well, college is begining to suck again. Most of my professors are cool, but one is still getting on my nerves. We were given topics related to cyptography and told that we were to present the topic and explain what we learned. My topic was the mathematics in encryption. I wrote up a pretty good presentation using Star Office Impress, covering entopy, basic encryption math, i.e. XOR, covered the basics behind DES and RSA. Well, I was ready to present today, and I thought I was going to,

Journal Journal: Looking at degree options

Journal by bulldog2260 on Thursday July 10, 2003 @01:30PM

I am looking at what degree to pursue in college. I am close to finishing my UNIX Systems Administration degree, and am looking to get my Computer Science Bachelor's degree. The college I am looking at is the University of Texas in Arlington. They offer several CS degrees, CS, Computer Science and Engineering, and Computer Science and Software Engineering. The CSE degree deals more with embeded systems, the CSSE degree deals more with the software engineering side with testing and develop

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