Amd to buy Ati? surely not?

Eliot · 31 May 2006 at 20:08

http://www.engadget.com/2006/05/31/amd-to-buy-ati/
all i can say is i would have thought ati are better off than amd ?
sounds like rubbish to be but i thought i would bring this 2 your attention

killer_uk · 31 May 2006 at 20:15

Eliot said:
sounds like rubbish

hp7909 · 31 May 2006 at 20:24

NVIDIA is doing better in terms of business, net income of $302.5 Million vs (ATI) $41.676 Million in 2005 :eek:

Maybe its a good thing for ATI & maybe in the long run for all of us - doubt it will happen though :rolleyes:

Eliot · 31 May 2006 at 20:24

killer_uk said:

lol but it was post-worthy wasnt it?

Mikey1280 · 31 May 2006 at 20:25

Engadget said:
no real hard evidence exists proving that AMD is even considering such a move

There you go.

Goody_GTI · 31 May 2006 at 20:25

next we would just need intel to buy nvidia

killer_uk · 31 May 2006 at 20:27

hp7909 said:
NVIDIA is doing better in terms of business, net income of $302.5 Million vs (ATI) $41.676 Million in 2005 Maybe its a good thing for ATI & maybe in the long run for all of us - doubt it will happen though

Damn, didn't know there was that much of a gap between the two.

Eliot said:
lol but it was post-worthy wasnt it?

Yeah, always interesting to hear these stories

pc-guy · 31 May 2006 at 21:10

and then they have the license to print money! which they all kind of do in their own respect

Azza · 31 May 2006 at 22:08

hahahahaha dont me laugh, though it would be quite interesting

KiNgPiN83 · 31 May 2006 at 22:22

To make it fair it should be AMD and NVIDIA and INTEL and Ati. Well, fairer.

locutus12 · 31 May 2006 at 22:29

hp7909 said:
NVIDIA is doing better in terms of business, net income of $302.5 Million vs (ATI) $41.676 Million in 2005 Maybe its a good thing for ATI & maybe in the long run for all of us - doubt it will happen though

lol, what copy of bull **** weekly did you pull that from ?

killer_uk said:
Damn, didn't know there was that much of a gap between the two.

There isnt...

ATi Fiscal report for 2005 financial year: (cant you just tell i used to be a finance officer

)
http://media.corporate-ir.net/media_files/phoenix/client/10/105421/quarterresults/ATI_Q405.pdf

Page one, 3rd paragragh, first and fith line. 2005 revenue was 2.2 billion US dollars. Net income after expenditures and taxes was $119 million, a drop on 2004 but with the production problems of the X1800 range and masses of old inventory to shift (a.k.a. the R480 cores which became the X800 GTO2) it shouldnt be a surprise to anyone and it certainly wasnt for our friendly Canadian company, ATi

Nvidia Fiscal report for 2005 financial year
http://gamesindustry.biz/content_page.php?aid=14827

"The company's revenue for the fiscal year (2005) ended January 29, 2006 was posted at a record USD 2.38 billion (EURO 1.99 billion), compared to USD 2.01 billion (EURO 1.68 billion) a year prior. Net income for the year was USD 302.6 million (EURO 253.4 million), showing a year-on-year increase of 202 per cent."

Nvidia increased profits by 202% over that year... a suprise?? again not really, we mainly saw Nvidia getting off its arse and delivering a product that unlike the 5XXX range wasnt a laughing stock, this combined with Nvidias jump into the motherboard chipset market and SLI account for this growth. put simply, in 2005, they caught up and in many ways overtook ATi.

Nvidia had
SLi
the 7800 range
Nforce chipsets.

ATi had
X8XX range.
the Xfire platform was experimental at best
and the X1800 range was bogged down with problems.

as for ATi possibly being richer than AMD, they are both of a similar size so to combine forces would make them quite a formidable pairing.

JonnyGLC · 31 May 2006 at 22:34

http://www.forbes.com/2006/05/31/amd-ati-technologies-0531markets10.html

killer_uk · 31 May 2006 at 22:34

ahhh, I thought it looked like quite a big gap between the two. Thanks for clearing that up.

PinkFloyd · 31 May 2006 at 22:43

That really would be an interesting merger....

Expect some kick ass computer hardware in a few years if this is the case

Gashman · 31 May 2006 at 23:29

it would proberbly be a good move for AMD and ATI alike, just form one mega-company making processors, chipsets, graphics processors, best for finantial security with the oncoming intel core duo business

quadboi · 31 May 2006 at 23:38

Gashman said:
it would proberbly be a good move for AMD and ATI alike, just form one mega-company making processors, chipsets, graphics processors, best for finantial security with the oncoming intel core duo business

Completely true, especially with Intels latest chip

Gashman · 31 May 2006 at 23:47

what would they call themselves? something like Advanced Silicon Technologies or something?

turbotoaster · 31 May 2006 at 23:53

Gashman said:
what would they call themselves? something like Advanced Silicon Technologies or something?

i like the sound of that

AST POWER!!

juno_first · 1 Jun 2006 at 07:06

I thought competition kept prices down and performance up ?

It makes sence to have one operating system, but hardware can be made to work with software can't it.

FrankJH · 1 Jun 2006 at 08:12

Isnt there an AST still around somewhere - not sure what it stands for though lol

ATI and AMD would in one sense be good - but another bad , after all it would be even more likely there could be incompatibilities between nv cards and amd chipsets if it happened , wouldnt you say.

I think it would be best served to keep the four companies mentioned above totally seperate