Posted on 07/23/2006 10:20:13 PM PDT by HAL9000
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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Advanced Micro Devices Inc. is close to buying ATI Technologies Inc. for $5.4 billion, a long-rumored deal that would open a new front in AMD's rivalry with Intel Corp.An AMD spokeswoman said late Sunday night that the company would hold a conference call at 8 a.m. Eastern Monday, but declined to disclose the subject.
AMD is in the late stages of negotiations to buy ATI in a mostly cash deal, the Wall Street Journal reported Sunday, citing people familiar with the matter. The deal could be announced as early as Monday morning. Sunnyvale, Calif.-based AMD has a market capitalization of $8.8 billion, about twice the size of ATI.
ATI is a maker of graphics processors and so-called chipsets that support microprocessors, the brains of PCs. The chips act as a group to transmit and receive data in computers and other consumer electronics. ATI's chips are used in computers, digital televisions, video game consoles, and cell phones.
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ATI was denying this all last week. That's what convinced me that it was going to happen.
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Agreed.
AMD's processors are a superior product to Intel's right now. This ups the stakes a lot.
My understanding is that Intel's newest processors outperform AMD's. But AMD will strike back with their new processors eventually. They will continue to battle it out for the foreseeable future.
Tom's Hardware is such a shill for Intel.
Granted the new processor is better than AMD's right now, its hardly game over for AMD
Intel has often used their strengths in other chips, to get some money out of even their toughest competitors. Look at a Sun or IBM produced board that does not have an Intel CPU on it, and you will still see some Intel chips. Now AMD is doing the same thing.
Intel is also going to charge an arm/leg/left **** for their dual core chips.
Never mind so much the Intel vs AMD CPU biz, what about AMD getting into the whole chipset biz with their own ATI GPU and other media related I/O functions?
And what does this do to nVidia?
Absolutely. I dumped my previous intel P4 and built a new PC around an athlon 64 3700+. It operates cooler and runs like a dream. Never buying an intel again.
Expect intel to make a bid
I don't really see nVidia accepting this unless Intel overpays.
currently, nVidia is also got the superior product to ATI which has slipped after many years of being #1.
Don't know either. I'm happily running computers on nForce 3 and nForce 4 boards.
Actually they've cut their prices drastically. You could get a dual core Intel CPU (805) for as little as $105.
Actually, I'm rooting for both of them and as long as they compete with each other I love them both. I don't give much of a damn who makes the processor I use.
Not necessarily. As I understand it, the new Intel "chip" is basically TWO processors--so it could be that the basic AMD processor architecture technology is better/more efficient, but can't match Intel's "two-processor" performance.
nVidia has excellent chipsets but the graphics cards that use the high-end nVidia chipsets are also exorbitantly expensive, too. Expect to pay US$350 or more for a PCI Express-bus card with the nVidia GeForce 7800GT chipset with 256 MB of video RAM and US$400 or more for the same graphics card with 512 MB of video RAM.
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