[nickcarraway]

ping

[RFC_Gal]

Their is also a rumor going around that Intel pulled ATI's bus license sometime in the past 7 days.

[PBRSTREETGANG]

Sounds AOK.

[mbraynard]

AMD essentially have cornered the high end graphics platform for themselves

Hardly. Ever heard of nVidia?

[mazack]

Does this give us any chance at all of having decent ATI video drivers in linux?

[untrained skeptic]

This sounds like bad news for competition in processor chipsets and video.

There's going to be a lot more hesitation to share important information between companies that have divisions that must work with the competitors of other branches of their own company.

In my experience, such things don't prevent cooperation entirely, but they do have a significant effect.

[TChris]

"AMD essentially have cornered the high end graphics platform for themselves. Intel is getting squeezed out there."

What kind of clueless drivel is this? Apparently this guy hasn't heard of the little company that competes with ATI; nVidia.

I'm not sure what to make of this deal. nVidia makes the best-performing chipset for AMD motherboards, so one might expect this merger to sour that relationship somewhat. I'll have to wait and see, but AMD might have just shot itself in the foot.

[the invisib1e hand]

is this a big deal? the story's like three days old, and it's getting recycled like a bad meal.

So what!?

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Cnet piece:

The one-chip computer at the heart of AMD-ATI deal