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It's Official — AMD Will Retire the ATI Brand
J. Dzhugashvili writes "A little over four years have passed since AMD purchased ATI. In May of last year, AMD took the remains of the Canadian graphics company and melded them into a monolithic products group, which combined processors, graphics, and platforms. Now, AMD is about to take the next step: kill the ATI brand altogether. The company has officially announced the move, saying it plans to label its next generation of graphics cards 'AMD Radeon' and 'AMD FirePro,' with new logos to match. The move has a lot to do with the incoming arrival of products like Ontario and Llano, which will combine AMD processing and graphics in single slabs of silicon."
With a 3 GHz clock, a signal at the speed of light travels 10 cm during one clock cycle. This means that if a chip needs data from another and there's a distance of five centimeters or more between both chips the data will not arrive in the same clock cycle.
Really? So when did we all get to using optical interconnects?
Electricity doesn't travel at the speed of light.
And even if it did, for your random, uninformed postulation to be true, we would need evidence that chips could not practically run faster than 3GHz. Unfortunately for you, that is not the case.
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
The electricity that runs through my processor is not made of photons, making this comment, although interesting, 100% irrelevant.
"City hall" in German is "Rathaus" Kinda explains a few things......
To a certain extent I think your concerns are valid ones, but your specific examples are poor.
There are 2 manufacturers of processors and graphics hardware because either no one else wants to enter the business or those who have attempted to do so have failed (ie. Transmeta). And I'm sure you know that AMD has been getting its butt kicked by Intel for a while now. They needed ATI out of desperation as a way to stay in the game. Without ATI, there's some possibility that Intel would be the only CPU game in town. No customers will benefit from that. I remain unconvinced that consumers have suffered as a result of the AMD-ATI deal, so you're going to need to give examples on that.
The US airline industry badly needs to consolidate. We need maybe 3 big national carriers to go along with cheaper, regional players like AirTran, Southwest, etc. The Justice Department did slap down a proposed United - US Airways merger just a few years ago. I thought they should have allowed that one as I don't see US Airways as a viable player in today's US airline market, but I suppose it's just a matter of time before they merge with American as the last 2 at the dance without a partner.
>This is hardly their worst offense, but how did the Bush Justice Department ever let AMD buy ATI to begin with? Are we really OK when there are only two major manufacturers of processors and graphics hardware?
Um there were only two major manufacturers of graphics hardware BEFORE AMD bought ATi. There are STILL only two major manufacturers of graphics hardware. Way to politicize this into something to liberal up into anti bush sentiment. I took a dump today. I built my bathroom in 1999. Now my bathroom stinks. It's Clinton's fault!
You are a fucking idiot. I could blame the BP disaster on Obama, since NEMA approved BP bypassing every single offshore drilling safety regulation (most of which were defined by the Bush administration) during his term (NEMA approved it in april 2009) but I won't. Everyone already knows Obama is a fuckup. His approval rating is worse than Bush's ever was.
Fucking republicrat idiots... If I had to pick one, I'd have to say the liberals are even more stupid than the republicans. At least the republicans consider the ramifications of what they do first. They might not care, but they at least consider it. Liberals just say "PAYOLA!, Gimmah" and do it, damn the torpedoes.
im no fan, however in the last 1.5 years i read a lot of verdict carrying court cases in regard to intel's bribery of computer manufacturers in asia and usa. they get fined here and there for their shit. if getting defeated means 'bribery', then well, give me enough money to bribe, and i will defeat all others with any shitty random brand.
get real.
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