AMD buys out ATI

[RErender]

http://gear.ign.com/articles/720/720756p1.html

I thought nvidia and AMD were buddies... GPU's at the fab sizes of CPU's sounds interesting.

[DaForce]

More/different info here

http://www.amd.com/us-en/Corporate/V...110899,00.html

[jacksc02]

i love the dollar figures that are being thrown around 5.4 BILLION 7.2 BILLION huge sums

[DJ-Studd]

You could buy 480,320 Hyundais for that. or 14,400 Ferraris

[jacksc02]

14,400 ferraris sound good!

[jujubee]

That doesn't sit well with me... Unless AMD can make ATI a better product.

[RErender]

Ati's aren't that bad, anyways, it sounds like AMD is moving towards a cel architecture, like the ps3, so they want the gpu stuff to include in it,

[jujubee]

I think ATI has been tanking the last couple years. Personal opinion - I just kept hearing about drive issues on some of their cards.

[Morbid Angel]

indeed juju.
I made a rule for my self, always go with nvidia product, even if its less powerful then ati, it will be always more stable.

[RErender]

hmm, dunno, I have a few of both, all of them crash and need plenty of cooling. The ATI's I have to say are able to recover from crashes that would require a reboot with the nvidias. For workstation cards I do prefer the quadros though.

[Morbid Angel]

ahh remember those times dudes...286 with 1mb of ram and 70 mb hdd?
I saw a banner once, long time ago. It was a screen shot of wolfenstain and it said: remember when 128k was enough?

[meanadam]

Just posted this in the general - probably goes here better....

AMD cut prices 47%.... get your AM2 slot 4200s for $200 now.

[DaForce]

47%!!!!


Farkme

[jacksc02]

woah thats insane

[Da_elf]

holey frying lizard shit batman those prices are low