AMD to Buy ATI?

i wouldn't think anything of this...Royal Bank of Canada is one of the more ass banks we have up here in canadaland.

one of their recent issues (just quoted from wiki): "On May 31, 2004, a problem during a routine software update affected the accounts of ten million customers. For three days, the entire RBC system failed to register withdrawals and deposits against customer balances. The problem cost the bank C$9 million to resolve."

For the three days, they also failed to notify their customers, and they still tried to sell useless bank shit even though the system was down.

GG.

Now Intel will buy nVidia.. COOL!

If AMD does indeed buy ATi, they should find the guy responsible for the Catalyst Control Center idea and light him on fire.

The reason I like AMD is becasue unlike intel, they realized the true bottlenecks of the personal PC and attacked those.

This move looks to me like they want control to streamline the CPU/GPU interface and have the real power to juggle the CPU/Memory/GPU loop...

Just heard that intel is laying off 16,000 employees.

ouch

Yes, the power of two suck-ass companies come together to further their suck-ass products to XXX-treme Suck Factor 12.

I've never, ever had any good experiences with either. Maybe them coming together will cause some rip in the fabric of space-time and the new, merged company will simply vanish from existence.

Go Canada!

Errr there is no way that AMD has enough capital to 'buyout' ATI. A merger would be more likely. The article is misleading, there is a huge difference between a buyout and a merger.

SEC filings show that AMD has about $800 Million in cash while ATI has a market cap of around $6 billion. You do the math.

It's better than Nvidia buying ATI, thats for sure

Yeah, those near-term tie-up dynamics sure are crazy.

Apjit Walia is going to be eating crow when Conroe and Merom start kicking AMD's ass all over the place and AMD gets relegated to second tier position once again. I like AMD just fine, have an X2 4400+ in my system but this analyst is smoking some good shit thinking AMD is giving them such tough competition that they should consider diversifying rather than taking on AMD head-on. His speculations of AMD buying out ATi are equally fuckin whack.

AMD + Nvidia, and I would sign.

Intel should buy Nvidia.

The implications would be pretty heavy for Mac users as well as Apple would likely either be forced to use amd chips or switch to nvidia cards in their new Macs.

Holy shit.

AMD/ATI fanboys like myself are shitting their pants in excitement.

this is just another one of those wild-ass speculation articles. no evidence whatsoever to even suggest this might actually happen. seems like one comes out every few months and is never true

This could be very interesting...

I have to wonder if the Quality of the Products will go up or down??...

Hmmm....

Dam this is pretty huge

Crazy psycho for once was right this morning. The world is going to explode.

i wonder if this would mean more.. or less drivers for ati stuff?

I just don't see this making any $en$e. Why would AMD want to add nvidia as a direct competitor? Unless AMD plans to intoduce a system-on-a-chip in the very near future this move would screw them for a while.

What was one of the biggest problems with the Athlons when they first came out? No not heat, the other problem? The AMD chipsets were not so great. When did AMD really start hitting their stride? That's right when nvidia came out with the nforce (2 specifically) and AMD totally gave up on the idea of doing chipsets. Why would AMD want to give up the nvidia chipsets and start going with ati chipsets?

I've heard rumors of the upcoming chipsets from ati are supposed to be good, but the nvidia chipsets aren't being compared to the ati ones in all the articles out there... it's always ati is trying this in their chipset and it is close to what nvidia has been doing for a while, but it doesn't quite reach that level.

Unless of course AMD thinks that graphics chips are the primary breadmaker from this point fwd then I can see no reason buying ati would be reasonable.

For full disclosure I use nvidia chipsets, AMD processors, and ati video cards -- oh and I'm not a business major (so the deal will probably be announced next week).

Wow, this can't be good for consumer prices.

I'm very happy about this. AMD didn't used to play nearly as well with ATI as nvidia cards... an nforce-ish chipset that takes advantage of AMD's next gen proc line would make me drool muchly if it used all the high end features ATI is bringing to the table in their newest cards.

Whoa.

Holy shit.

way to make progress from shoddy 486 chips and competing with Cyrix.

That would be fucking freaky if AMD bought ATI and in return, Intel and nVidia partner up (I don't see Intel outright buying them, nVidia is too big)