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Interview with ATI's soon-to-be CEO Dave Orton

Posted by michael on from the purty-pictures dept.

wolfgang writes "Tom's Hardware has published an interview with Dave Orton, who will become ATI's next CEO in June. Orton talks about the transformation of the company within the last three years, the current competition with Nvidia and what can be expected from graphic chipsets in the near future. Orton believes that ATI can grab more than 50 percent market share in the desktop market in the short term."

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  1. Well... by Bishop,+Martin · · Score: 5, Interesting

    What they really need to do is release better Linux drivers, and care more about Linux support in general.

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    1. Re:Well... by lspd · · Score: 4, Interesting

      NVidia seems like the only choice for me, since only ATI's most recent line of products (ie: expensive products) are supported.

      DRI covers virtually all of the ATI chips up to the 9200.
      FGLRX covers everything from the Radeon 8500 to 9800.

      The only remaining problem is that some commercial developers just assume Nvidia is the standard. DRI in particular has come a long way. I've been using a Radeon 8500 with Michael Daenzer's DRI packages for Debian with few problems. Out of 30 commercial Linux games I have, 3 don't work properly: Descent 3, Savage and Heavy Gear 2. Savage's problem is trivial to fix, the others I'm not sure about.

      I'd rather see ATI release the 3D specs on the R300 chips than see further improvements in the FGLRX driver.

  2. I agree by kneecarrot · · Score: 4, Interesting

    ATI does look well poised to capture the majority of the desktop graphics card business. They have had excellent competitors since the 9700 and their newest generation gives superior performance to nVidia cards with less cooling and power requirements.

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