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It's Official - AMD Buys ATI
FrankNFurter writes "It's been a rumour for several weeks, but now it's confirmed: AMD buys ATI. What implications is this merger going to have for the hardware market?" In addition to AMD's release, there's plenty of coverage out there.
Intel buys Nvidia. Let the war continue!
... But hopefully they'll kick the ATI driver team up the arse and get a decent set of drivers out (for Windows and Linux).
"I may be full of crap about this game, and I may be wrong, and that's fine." -Jack Thompson
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http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=3
-Charlie
AMD combines with ATI and has announced a new name for their company:
DAAMIT!
He who knows best knows how little he knows. - Thomas Jefferson
"System on a chip or at least integrated GPU and CPU cool."
A die holding an AMD core and an ATI GPU may be 'neat', 'fab', 'brill' or even 'ace' - but 'cool' - I think not!
AT&ROFLMAO
"ATI's products tend to be miserably supported"
Oh tell me more, NVIDIA fanboy! Tell me a opposing tale of the wonderful NVIDIA happy land, with a gumdrop house on lollipop lane!
I like 3D accel, but I'd be quite happy with an unaccelerated frame-buffer - just as long as is stable.
Go into your xorg.conf and change the "Driver" line to "vga" or "vesa".
You now have an unaccelerated frame-buffer display that will be as stable as the day is long. It will also suck donkey cock, but it is exactly what you just asked for.
Well, if that's the only thing stopping them, we should be in luck. In a month or two they should be able to pick up SGI at the flea market for five bucks "but only if you take that stack of documentation, too."
"You're right," Fisheye says. "I should have set it on 'whip' or 'chop.'"