Sinatech: ATI/AMD Aquisition Agreement Reached: ATI facing a big shake-up

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Jawed said:
Make up your mind, was ATI selling chipsets directly to Intel a blip or not? :???:

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Selling chipsets is one thing.
Adding support for Crossfire though, hinted at a broader agreement -at least on ATI's part of the expectations-.
That was seen as more than a blip.

But then...
It was the Intel opinion that went under the radar, like that NV bundling stated above proved recently (as early as May).
This hinted it was not a blip, but no one noticed it and the buzz for Intel+ATI continued.


Remember there was also talk on Intel buying ATI long before this "storm" broke up a few weeks ago.


I believe this happened because ATI and NV, being smaller and more "agile" than AMD or Intel, become the media darlings, just like Apple.
The problem is, to be a media darling is different from being truly relevant in the real world outside the press and fan-base for either of the former two.
 
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Rahul Sood, president of the gaming computer company VoodooPC, argued in a blog over the weekend that ATI is a "diamond hidden deep in the rough." The proposed deal would be a brilliant stroke for AMD, he argued, representing "a go-big strategy that will shake the very foundation of our industry."
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Diamond in the rough? More like a diamond sold at jewelery prices.
 
Fox5 said:
Diamond in the rough? More like a diamond sold at jewelery prices.
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For a moment i thought of Diamond Multimedia, and of what happened after S3 got a hold of them for a while...:-|
 
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