BentHeadTX
Flashlight Enthusiast
AMD purchased ATI for 5.5 billion Titanium CR123A batteries... err, US $$$$
My present machine is a Athlon64 with an ATI XPress intergrated graphics chipset mobo, ATI X700 Pro 256MB VIVO video card and ATI Theater 550 TV tuner card. My next laptop will be an Apple Macbook Pro with Intel Merom dual core and ATI X1600 graphics. Wonder how all that is going to work?
Apple likes ATI graphics but uses Intel processors. nVidia makes a ton of motherboard chipsets for AMD. How is nVidia going to view making chipsets for AMD/ATI? Intel will probably pull their licensing from ATI to build chipsets for Intel CPUs. Will Intel buy nVidia?
With the upcoming K8 quad-core CPU intergrate support for ATI graphics? Will the K8 have partial intergration with ATI GPUs?
I see a few good points, CPU and GPU optimization, ATI building awesome chipsets for AMD K8 processors since they share info from the bottom up. Maybe AMD/ATI will build a motherboard with intergrated graphics that are very fast since they know what processor is used and also thow in a Theater 550 TV tuner chip, VIVO and all that jazz on an intergrated microATX motherboard. Is AMD/ATI going to build the ultimate Home Theater PC on a microATX mobo and a quad-core low wattage chip?
The downside has a few snags also. Less motherboards chipsets around, Intel will probably optimize their new chipsets for nVidia video cards and this could get ugly. Either AMD/ATI or Intel/nVidia could really slow down competition.
Just wondered what your thoughts are on this merger buyout? (Raggie... were is Raggie?) It does not scare me much, I can see the good and the bad.
What is scary is if Mag bought out Surefire... Fenix bought out Arc or Streamlight bought out Peak. That gives me night terrors!
My present machine is a Athlon64 with an ATI XPress intergrated graphics chipset mobo, ATI X700 Pro 256MB VIVO video card and ATI Theater 550 TV tuner card. My next laptop will be an Apple Macbook Pro with Intel Merom dual core and ATI X1600 graphics. Wonder how all that is going to work?
Apple likes ATI graphics but uses Intel processors. nVidia makes a ton of motherboard chipsets for AMD. How is nVidia going to view making chipsets for AMD/ATI? Intel will probably pull their licensing from ATI to build chipsets for Intel CPUs. Will Intel buy nVidia?
With the upcoming K8 quad-core CPU intergrate support for ATI graphics? Will the K8 have partial intergration with ATI GPUs?
I see a few good points, CPU and GPU optimization, ATI building awesome chipsets for AMD K8 processors since they share info from the bottom up. Maybe AMD/ATI will build a motherboard with intergrated graphics that are very fast since they know what processor is used and also thow in a Theater 550 TV tuner chip, VIVO and all that jazz on an intergrated microATX motherboard. Is AMD/ATI going to build the ultimate Home Theater PC on a microATX mobo and a quad-core low wattage chip?
The downside has a few snags also. Less motherboards chipsets around, Intel will probably optimize their new chipsets for nVidia video cards and this could get ugly. Either AMD/ATI or Intel/nVidia could really slow down competition.
Just wondered what your thoughts are on this merger buyout? (Raggie... were is Raggie?) It does not scare me much, I can see the good and the bad.
What is scary is if Mag bought out Surefire... Fenix bought out Arc or Streamlight bought out Peak. That gives me night terrors!