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AMD-ATi Merger?

post #1 of 17
6/1/06 at 12:57am
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http://www.forbes.com/markets/econom...markets10.html

I'm sorry if this is old news to some of you or if this was posted before. If it was, then mods, please feel free to delete. I was gonna post it up on the news section, but I figured that more people visit this section more often. This is quite a big news story, so I thought it would be a good read for everyone.
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post #2 of 17
6/1/06 at 7:41am
Its forbes blowing smoke, they quote analysts and stuff. Nothing of this kind has ever been mentioned from AMD or ATI themselves AFAIK.

Gotta admit though, it'd be cool.
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post #3 of 17
6/1/06 at 11:53am
It is just speculation by one analyst. Looking at the market, he determined that it would be a good move on both company's parts. Wheather or not it actually means anything, or that the companies were in talks, is probably just guess work :P
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post #4 of 17
6/1/06 at 1:50pm
I like the competition, so I hope they remain separated. Competition is good for the economy... and for us.

Ransom
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post #5 of 17
6/1/06 at 2:24pm
I thought that amd and ati didnt compete with eachother? Thus a merger would benefit both companies, and create more competition for both intel and nvidia, which is what consumers want right?
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post #6 of 17
6/1/06 at 4:06pm
It would practically kill Via.
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post #7 of 17
6/1/06 at 4:41pm
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Originally Posted by Ransomed1
I like the competition, so I hope they remain separated. Competition is good for the economy... and for us.

Ransom


But... they dont... compete... AMD makes chips... ATI makes chipsets that supports AMD's chips... the only thing I'd be worried about is support for the awesome NForce chipsets... and you could probably say good bye to a SLI board with an AMD chip. It'd be straight AMD with a crossfire chipset. I've actually seen discussions where there were speculations of mergers even between Intel and Nvidia, and how AMD would have to merge with ATI, yadda yadda... as mentioned before, if this happened, companies like Via, Foxconn, DFI, etc. would have nervous breakdowns... But again, its someone at a big name paper printing heresay, so dont be like OMGWTFMERGER just yet.
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post #8 of 17
6/1/06 at 5:48pm
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Originally Posted by ew2x4
It would practically kill Via.
Via is killing Via. They havent had a good VIa chipsetted mobo since the 754 days. Today, nobody buys a Via chipset for anything but hte most budget boards. Its all about nVidia and ATI's solutions (and intel for themselves) when it comes to performance..
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post #9 of 17
6/2/06 at 2:16pm
sis would go down the drane as well
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post #10 of 17
6/2/06 at 2:22pm
Hopefully if this comes to pass AMD will lean on ATi to write some linux drivers that don't suck.
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post #11 of 17
6/2/06 at 2:23pm
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Originally Posted by Silvermirage
sis would go down the drane as well
Good riddance.
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post #12 of 17
6/2/06 at 2:26pm
From what I've read, that analyst has been known to blow smoke. He's mentioned Intel/Nvidia mergers, Intel/ATI mergers, Nvidia/ATI mergers, etc. none of which have come to frutation. Just a bunch of rumors to increase stock sales, which it did in fact accomplish.

Edit: resulting Stock surge: http://today.reuters.com/business/ne...yID=nN31230925
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post #13 of 17
6/2/06 at 3:32pm
I had read of a 5th cpu vendor to enter the x84 cpu market after intel, amd, transmeta and via. they were confident on being on par with AMD by 2008. Dunno where they are. I even forgot their name.

btw I doubt even if Transmeta, Via,Sis, Savage3d, matrox merged togather can survive.

and if speculations are going on, then how about ASUS-AMD-ATI merger?

AMD cpu's with ATI gpu on ASus modded ati chipsets in ASus notebooks. They will definitely kick *ss
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post #14 of 17
6/3/06 at 12:47pm
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Originally Posted by Divine_Madcat
Via is killing Via. They havent had a good VIa chipsetted mobo since the 754 days. Today, nobody buys a Via chipset for anything but hte most budget boards. Its all about nVidia and ATI's solutions (and intel for themselves) when it comes to performance..

Reminds me of Nvidia during the 5x00 days. Yeah, they really never recovered from that one. Companies aren't always around with decent products. They'll be back.
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post #15 of 17
6/4/06 at 12:42am
It might happen. Who knows? Okay I can think of a few people but honestly I really don't know. I can see it definitely benefiting the consumer base as there could be package deals and they could integrate much better. Guess we'll see.
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post #16 of 17
6/4/06 at 2:35am
Maybe a pump and dump by the analyst, but you definitely can't take the silence from either company to mean it's not going to happen. Companies rarely, if ever, comment on mergers and such before they're officially announced. There's a lot of paper work to be done before any such annoucement. It's not like the CEO waltzes in one morning and decides to acquire another multi-billion dollar company over a phone call.
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post #17 of 17
6/4/06 at 2:43am
This rumor pops up every couple of years. Last time it was Nvidia and AMD, I believe.
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