AMD close to $5.5 billion deal for ATI

"EDM" wrote in message
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"TonyC" nospam wrote in message ...
Clone hardware meets bad drivers.

Sounds like a marriage made in hell.

Clone hardware? Where you been the last 10years?

I've been the same place as 20 million other people: dealing
with and trying to debug crap AMD hardware and ATI drivers.

No, your a dumbass.

Those 20million other people are laughing behind your back.

Clone hardware indeed LOL. Where have you been man....really?

guess i go looking for another video card manufacturer.

will the last one at ATI please shut out the lights.


i can completely understand AMD buying out nvidia... a merge of that kind of ilk, as it
were.


let me be among the first to wish ATI........ goodnight.
hasta que satisfacemos otra vez

** no fate **

dracman

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"AirRaid Mach 2.5" wrote in message
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:
: CNN Money:
:
: http://wwwtinyurl.com/outhh
:
: AMD seen close to $5.5 billion chip deal
:
: Source says Advanced Micro Devices could announce deal with #2 Canadian
: chipmaker as early as Monday.
:
: July 21 2006: 6:35 PM EDT
:
: PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -- -- Advanced Micro Devices, the No. 2 supplier
: of computer processors, is close to a deal to buy graphics chip maker
: ATI for $5.5 billion, a source familiar with the situation said on
: Friday.
:
: Any such deal would shake up the processor industry, which is
: witnessing a battle over market share between AMD and larger rival
: Intel (Charts).
:
: ATI (Charts) is one of two major graphics chips makers, along with
: rival Nvidia (Charts), and is a big supplier of chipsets - the cluster
: of secondary chips and interfaces that surround a computer's processor
: - to both AMD and Intel.
:
: Unless talks break down, a deal could be announced as early as Monday,
: the source said.
:
: ATI declined to comment, and an AMD spokesman could not be immediately
: reached for comment.
:
: Shares of ATI rallied on Friday on renewed speculation that a deal was
: close at hand.
:
: After gaining 83 cents, or 5.3 percent, to close at $16.56 on the
: Nasdaq market in regular trade, the shares jumped another 7 percent to
: $17.68 in after-hours trading on Inet. On the Toronto Stock Exchange,
: the stock finished 99 Canadian cents higher at C$18.77.
:
: Rumors that AMD could purchase the Canadian graphics chip maker
: surfaced in late May when an analyst suggested the move could make AMD
: more competitive with Intel. The speculation sent ATI shares surging
: about 10 percent.
:
: Some analysts have questioned the rationale for an AMD-ATI merger, and
: others were surprised that the speculation received no attention from
: analysts during AMD's earnings conference call on Thursday.
:
: AMD shares closed at $18.26, down $3.39, or 15.7 percent, on the New
: York Stock Exchange as investors worried that the company would not be
: able to continue grabbing market share from Intel.
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Great news for me,I love my Amd-Ati combo.
Error free and crystal clear on my rig.
I suppose the 2 will support eachother more now on the gaming front.

"Dr Richard Cranium" schreef in bericht
.. .

guess i go looking for another video card manufacturer.

will the last one at ATI please shut out the lights.


i can completely understand AMD buying out nvidia... a merge of that kind
of ilk, as it
were.


let me be among the first to wish ATI........ goodnight.
hasta que satisfacemos otra vez

** no fate **

dracman

-=-



"AirRaid Mach 2.5" wrote in message
oups.com...
:
: CNN Money:
:
: http://wwwtinyurl.com/outhh
:
: AMD seen close to $5.5 billion chip deal
:
: Source says Advanced Micro Devices could announce deal with #2 Canadian
: chipmaker as early as Monday.
:
: July 21 2006: 6:35 PM EDT
:
: PHILADELPHIA (Reuters) -- -- Advanced Micro Devices, the No. 2 supplier
: of computer processors, is close to a deal to buy graphics chip maker
: ATI for $5.5 billion, a source familiar with the situation said on
: Friday.
:
: Any such deal would shake up the processor industry, which is
: witnessing a battle over market share between AMD and larger rival
: Intel (Charts).
:
: ATI (Charts) is one of two major graphics chips makers, along with
: rival Nvidia (Charts), and is a big supplier of chipsets - the cluster
: of secondary chips and interfaces that surround a computer's processor
: - to both AMD and Intel.
:
: Unless talks break down, a deal could be announced as early as Monday,
: the source said.
:
: ATI declined to comment, and an AMD spokesman could not be immediately
: reached for comment.
:
: Shares of ATI rallied on Friday on renewed speculation that a deal was
: close at hand.
:
: After gaining 83 cents, or 5.3 percent, to close at $16.56 on the
: Nasdaq market in regular trade, the shares jumped another 7 percent to
: $17.68 in after-hours trading on Inet. On the Toronto Stock Exchange,
: the stock finished 99 Canadian cents higher at C$18.77.
:
: Rumors that AMD could purchase the Canadian graphics chip maker
: surfaced in late May when an analyst suggested the move could make AMD
: more competitive with Intel. The speculation sent ATI shares surging
: about 10 percent.
:
: Some analysts have questioned the rationale for an AMD-ATI merger, and
: others were surprised that the speculation received no attention from
: analysts during AMD's earnings conference call on Thursday.
:
: AMD shares closed at $18.26, down $3.39, or 15.7 percent, on the New
: York Stock Exchange as investors worried that the company would not be
: able to continue grabbing market share from Intel.
:




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"Dr Richard Cranium" wrote in message
.. .

guess i go looking for another video card manufacturer.

will the last one at ATI please shut out the lights.


i can completely understand AMD buying out nvidia... a merge of that kind
of ilk, as it
were.


let me be among the first to wish ATI........ goodnight.
hasta que satisfacemos otra vez

** no fate **

dracman

-=-

Just when ATi gets a chip out to help the Crossfire probs, lookit what
happens :\

Honest, I don't know what to think will happen. I'll be watching with
interest though.

McG.