AMD-ATI Merger Looks Likely

ERU · 1 Jun 2006 at 19:02

AMD-ATI Merger Looks Likely

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senorstealth · 1 Jun 2006 at 19:08

Hmm, believe it when i see it

trojan698 · 1 Jun 2006 at 19:19

Interesting. I wonder why everyone is so sceptical.

senorstealth · 1 Jun 2006 at 19:39

I don't know, it just seems unlikely

chimponarope · 1 Jun 2006 at 20:15

I wonder how this will affect the chipset market though. With Nvidia being one of the biggest AMD chipset providers recently and Intel's chipsets supporting ATI's crossfire it all gets very complicated suddenly should this buy out take place.

Also the part in the article about this increasing AMD's manufacturing ability doesn't really make much sense, I thought ATI and Nvidia did all their silicon through foundries?

senorstealth · 1 Jun 2006 at 20:50

chimponarope said:
Also the part in the article about this increasing AMD's manufacturing ability doesn't really make much sense, I thought ATI and Nvidia did all their silicon through foundries?

AMD are in the process of building a new manufacturing plant for their new chips, with the capability of building cpus with a smaller feature size so i can't see the logic in that either.

Jack Bauer · 1 Jun 2006 at 22:32

If anything i would have expected a AMD nvidia merger, they have more to offer each other.

Angilion · 1 Jun 2006 at 22:42

Maybe AMD think they could expand to start making GPUs as well as CPUs...maybe. I don't see the sense in AMD buying ATI, unless they plan to have ATI as a wholly owned subsidiary and essentially leave it to run itself. It's buying into a really quite different market.

senorstealth · 1 Jun 2006 at 23:38

Could well just be another way of making money, the 2 companies having nothing to do with each other, but with the added financial clout

mojojoejo · 2 Jun 2006 at 00:57

Well look at it this way, AMD makes CPUs and (I'm guessing) get most of their income from that, Intel on the other hand is in so many more diverse markets that they don't rely as heavily on their CPU markets as AMD (not as uptodate on Intel but their biggest income was flash memory for mobile phones and not CPUs a few years back at almost 30%).

The article is a continuation of a theory that the graphics card manufacterors would be bought out sometime, lots of ifs really - but the idea would be sound. If AMD was to merge with ATI then they could look at better supply and probably manufactering costs by combining the production - both from a cost and volume point of view.

Re-read the article though, it's just a "hey if they did this it'd be great" idea anyway.

hp7909 · 2 Jun 2006 at 07:34

Where there is smoke... :cool:

lol:

"We believe Intel is still not 'reading-the-writing-on-the-wall' and continues to over-focus on PCs."

hp7909

hp7909 · 2 Jun 2006 at 07:38

senorstealth said:
{snip} the 2 companies having nothing to do with each other{snip}

I mean, they are both chip makers, doesn't that mean they can like share labs, R&D's, etc??? Down the line beniftining all of us

Mr Jones · 2 Jun 2006 at 08:14

Hmm... if that DO happen, lets hope they can work together and make something epic... Something along the lines of "Forever up-to-date" chips?

pompeyboy · 2 Jun 2006 at 08:17

it seems inevitable to me, intel and nvidia always seemed to have connections and work with each other and ati and amd seem to have started working together as well.

kmistry · 2 Jun 2006 at 10:45

This is quality, it will herald a new revolution I think, exciting things on the horizon :cool:

lay-z-boy · 2 Jun 2006 at 14:57

intel + ati

nvidia + amd

no merging, its all bs tbh.

NathanE · 2 Jun 2006 at 15:02

They leaked this delibrately to keep their stakeholders in confident shape whilst they think up ways to counter Conroe.

Cyber-Mav · 2 Jun 2006 at 16:55

hmm, here is another possibility. quad core cpu but one core being a GPU core, 2 cpu cores and a PPU core.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm :eek:

james.miller · 2 Jun 2006 at 17:01

NathanE said:
They leaked this delibrately to keep their stakeholders in confident shape whilst they think up ways to counter Conroe.

for a second there, i thought you were getting all anti-AMD on us. Come on though, there's nothing to suggest that other than coincidential timing of events at this point

mojojoejo said:
Well look at it this way, AMD makes CPUs and (I'm guessing) get most of their income from that, Intel on the other hand is in so many more diverse markets that they don't rely as heavily on their CPU markets as AMD (not as uptodate on Intel but their biggest income was flash memory for mobile phones and not CPUs a few years back at almost 30%).

I thought most of their income came from something esle actually. memory wasnt it? certainly was in 2004/2005 anyhow

poltergeist666 · 2 Jun 2006 at 19:52

Not bad - Intel has cut the price of Conroe, and it's not even out yet!!

From the link to article posted earlier in the thread.

Intel has introduced drastic price-cuts for its Celeron, Pentium-4, Pentium-D and Conroe processors, which could make the price-war "quite ugly," in Walia's opinion. Intel does seem to have gained some share-back from AMD with the price cuts, but the impact on margins is negative, the analyst said.

Going to be interesting how the next 9 - 12 months pan out.