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It's Official - AMD Buys ATI

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the i've-become-more-powerful-then-you-can-possibly-imagine dept.

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.

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  1. See Hackers Dictionary: "Wheel of reincarnation" by kriegsman · · Score: 5, Informative
    AMD needs GPU functionality on the CPU.

    See the entry in the Hacker's Dictionary / Jargon File for "Wheel of reincarnation":
    wheel of reincarnation: [1968] Term used to refer to a well-known effect whereby function in a computing system family is migrated out to special-purpose peripheral hardware for speed, then the peripheral evolves toward more computing power as it does its job, then somebody notices that it is inefficient to support two asymmetrical processors in the architecture and folds the function back into the main CPU, at which point the cycle begins again.

    Several iterations of this cycle have been observed in graphics-processor design, and at least one or two in communications and floating-point processors. [...]


    -Mark