ATI and AMD Seek Approval for Merger?

Krugerlive writes "The rumor of an ATI/AMD merger/buyout has been out now for sometime. However, this morning an Inquirer article has said that a merger deal has been struck and that the two companies will seek shareholder approval on Monday of next week. In the market, AMD is down as a result of lackluster earnings announced last evening, and ATI is up about 4% on unusually high volume." This is nothing but a rumour at the moment, a point that C|Net makes in examining the issue. From the article: "AMD has always boasted that it only wants to make processors, leaving networking and chipsets to others. AMD does produce some chipsets, but mostly just to get the market started. Neutrality has helped the company garner strong allies."

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Re:Why ATI... Go NVidia

[Paul Jakma]

The X.org drivers do support 3D, and quite well, on the older R100 and R200 cards. R300/400 are also supported for 3D, but those have needed extensive reverse engineering, and hence are not quite as mature (though, getting there apparently), also they have only really reverse engineered the equivalent of the R200 feature set, so they're not getting the most out of the cards - all thanks to ATis silly attitude about supplying documentation.