Except they also have to compete now for the resources of the company as a whole. It's not like AMD is just going to say, "Okay, ATI, you can have all the fab time and money you want. Just write yourself a check."Ratchet said:And ATI still exists as a division afterall. Their focus is graphics like it always has been, the only difference now is they got the support and resources of a $7B company.
In the short term, nothing will change, as ATI already has products well on their way to production. But this will inevitably make the new ATI/AMD entity slower to react, and thus slower to put out new technologies, just because there will be additional layers of management to convince of a product's viability.