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Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger [message #209207 is a reply to message #209154]

Sat, 22 July 2006 08:23

Renx
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I wish people would stop running around with the idea that AMD is going to completely alienate everything to do with nvidia from their products, or the other way around. Folks that's just not going to happen.

Right now, without a doubt, nvidia makes the majority of chipsets for AMD platforms. Nvidia is not going to stop producing AMD chipsets because of this merger, they'd be pulling out of a massive section of their market. I highly doubt AMD or ATI could make up for them either.

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This greatly worries me. I may need to switch over to ATI. But I don't know anything about ATI cards. I'll need to bone up on my video cards.

They're not going to release drivers or updates that just cause nvidia hardware to stop working... Come on now.

The major reason behind this merger is fabs. Both companies want the ability to produce more chips and produce them faster. Currently I don't think ATI has any of their own fabs, so this merger would give them access to AMD's fabs. AMD want money to build more fabs.

NONE of these companies want to lose money, so anything dramatic happening within the next year at least is incredibly unlikely. If anything, you will just slowly start to see more coming out on the AMD+ATI side of things. As you'll get more benefits for going AMD+ATI as they come up with new technologies that work with each other. AMD+Nvidia will still work, and so will Intel+ATI. Everyone needs to stop thinking so negatively.

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		OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Aprime on Fri, 21 July 2006 21:45
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Zion on Fri, 21 July 2006 21:49
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: z310 on Fri, 21 July 2006 21:51
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Aprime on Fri, 21 July 2006 22:07
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Doitle on Fri, 21 July 2006 22:26
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Aprime on Fri, 21 July 2006 22:44
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Dave Anderson on Fri, 21 July 2006 23:10
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: mrpirate on Sat, 22 July 2006 08:48
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: light on Sat, 22 July 2006 15:03
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Dave Anderson on Sat, 22 July 2006 16:45
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: ADM on Tue, 25 July 2006 12:45
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: sterps on Sat, 22 July 2006 19:12
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Renx on Sat, 22 July 2006 21:54
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: AmunRa on Sat, 22 July 2006 01:37
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: jnz on Sat, 22 July 2006 17:25
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Jaspah on Mon, 24 July 2006 13:22
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Aprime on Sat, 22 July 2006 01:56
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Renx on Sat, 22 July 2006 08:23
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Doitle on Sat, 22 July 2006 12:19
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: PaRaDoX on Sat, 22 July 2006 16:08
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: mrpirate on Sat, 22 July 2006 17:23
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: glyde51 on Sat, 22 July 2006 17:55
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Doitle on Sat, 22 July 2006 20:20
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Aprime on Mon, 24 July 2006 08:52
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Renx on Mon, 24 July 2006 10:26
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: bandie63 on Mon, 24 July 2006 11:58
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: DreamWraith on Mon, 24 July 2006 13:00
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Renx on Mon, 24 July 2006 17:40
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: DreamWraith on Mon, 24 July 2006 22:21
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: bandie63 on Tue, 25 July 2006 14:27
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: KIRBY-098 on Mon, 24 July 2006 13:03
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Aprime on Mon, 24 July 2006 13:36
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Jaspah on Mon, 24 July 2006 15:50
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Aprime on Mon, 24 July 2006 16:30
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Doitle on Mon, 24 July 2006 19:43
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: CarrierII on Tue, 25 July 2006 04:43
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Renx on Tue, 25 July 2006 08:52
		Re: OT: OH SNAP! - ATI+AMD Merger By: Aprime on Tue, 25 July 2006 15:08

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