http://www.anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2807&p=1Honestly, Im totally lost. I guess I can see why AMD is doing this.
In short, AMD is losing money because of Intel's Core Duo 2, and AMD is running out of resources, so they decided to pur 5.4 billion dollars into buying ATI and theyre hoping it will all pay off when "GPUs and CPUs become one". I dont see taht happening for at least 5 years, maybe 10.
Intel is totally fine on this, they have market share, and enouch cash to continue, and with the Core 2 Duo just released, and with all the stuff Dell has bought from them, theyre good so far. (I did hear that Dell was contemplating buying AMD parts because Intel wasnt delivering for them, but thats changed).
Nvidia is im assuming at this point probably going to be making more for Intel, as AMD is acquiring ATI. Apparently there is supposed to be an evening out of chipset sales per company, from what I can see in the article.
ATI is all game for this i guess. I think that they are going to lsoe all ties with Intel becasue AMD is (or at least was) prime competition for Intel. If ATI joins up with AMD, I dont think intel would want to or want any of ATI's support, since that would be like feeding directly to your enemy (AMD).
Man times have changed... All I know is I'm totally happy with Intel's performance lately and if they end up working more with Nvidia then they have with ATI, im game. Though I do favor ATI cards, I was never really an AMD fan and now that Intel has control of the road for at least 5 years or so and AMD is probably not going to gain much more control, Nvidia working with Intel would probably work better for both companies, as both are top notch, compared to their counterpart companies battling them.
Well what do you think?
