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Reports: AMD near deal to buy ATI for $5.4 billion
Dow Jones MarketWatch (excerpt) ^ | July 24, 2006

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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TOPICS: Business/Economy; News/Current Events; Technical
KEYWORDS: amd; ati
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1 posted on 07/23/2006 10:20:14 PM PDT by HAL9000
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To: HAL9000

ATI was denying this all last week. That's what convinced me that it was going to happen.


2 posted on 07/23/2006 10:24:09 PM PDT by Private_Sector_Does_It_Better (The UN did such a great job with Oil for Food in Iraq, let's let them run the whole country)
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To: Blue Highway

ping


3 posted on 07/23/2006 10:26:11 PM PDT by perfect stranger (I need new glasses)
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To: HAL9000
This speaks well for AMD's cash position. I think in the coming quarters we will see a new wave of high-performance integrated chipsets and graphics processors.
4 posted on 07/23/2006 10:29:42 PM PDT by Prodn2000
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To: Private_Sector_Does_It_Better

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5 posted on 07/23/2006 10:31:11 PM PDT by stephenjohnbanker (Taglines for sale or rent. Good "one liners", 50 cents.)
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To: Prodn2000

Agreed.

AMD's processors are a superior product to Intel's right now. This ups the stakes a lot.



6 posted on 07/23/2006 10:38:08 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: Proud_USA_Republican
AMD's processors are a superior product to Intel's right now.

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.

7 posted on 07/23/2006 10:41:03 PM PDT by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: Proud_USA_Republican
Tom's Hardware - July 14, 2006: Game Over? Core 2 Duo Knocks Out Athlon 64
8 posted on 07/23/2006 10:42:39 PM PDT by HAL9000 (Get a Mac - The Ultimate FReeping Machine)
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To: HAL9000

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


9 posted on 07/23/2006 10:45:52 PM PDT by Crazieman (The Democratic Party: Culture of Treason)
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To: HAL9000

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.


10 posted on 07/23/2006 10:49:38 PM PDT by ikka
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To: Crazieman

Intel is also going to charge an arm/leg/left **** for their dual core chips.


11 posted on 07/23/2006 10:55:51 PM PDT by Prodn2000
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To: HAL9000; Private_Sector_Does_It_Better

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?


12 posted on 07/23/2006 11:03:04 PM PDT by Republican Party Reptile
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To: Proud_USA_Republican
AMD's processors are a superior product to Intel's right now

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.

13 posted on 07/23/2006 11:04:13 PM PDT by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
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To: Republican Party Reptile
And what does this do to nVidia

Expect intel to make a bid

14 posted on 07/23/2006 11:05:45 PM PDT by HarmlessLovableFuzzball
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To: HarmlessLovableFuzzball

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.


15 posted on 07/23/2006 11:07:27 PM PDT by Proud_USA_Republican (We're going to take things away from you on behalf of the common good. - Hillary Clinton)
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To: Republican Party Reptile

Don't know either. I'm happily running computers on nForce 3 and nForce 4 boards.


16 posted on 07/23/2006 11:12:18 PM PDT by Crazieman (The Democratic Party: Culture of Treason)
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To: Prodn2000
Intel is also going to charge an arm/leg/left **** for their dual core chips.

Actually they've cut their prices drastically. You could get a dual core Intel CPU (805) for as little as $105.

17 posted on 07/24/2006 2:41:14 AM PDT by AmericaUnited
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To: AmericaUnited

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.


18 posted on 07/24/2006 4:07:48 AM PDT by bkepley
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To: HAL9000
"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."

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.

19 posted on 07/24/2006 5:12:51 AM PDT by Wonder Warthog (The Hog of Steel-NRA)
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To: Proud_USA_Republican

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.


20 posted on 07/24/2006 6:31:05 AM PDT by RayChuang88
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