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AMD close to $5.5 billion deal for ATI
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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AMD close to $5.5 billion deal for ATI
"AirRaid Mach 2.5" wrote in message oups.com...
CNN Money: http://wwwtinyurl.com/outhh AMD seen close to $5.5 billion chip deal Clone hardware meets bad drivers. Sounds like a marriage made in hell. |
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AMD close to $5.5 billion deal for ATI
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 00:47:43 GMT, "EDM" wrote:
Clone hardware meets bad drivers. Sounds like a marriage made in hell. Yeah, just like clueless idiots and Usenet. -- Andrew, contact via http://interpleb.googlepages.com Help make Usenet a better place: English is read downwards, please don't top post. Trim replies to quote only relevant text. Check groups.google.com before asking an obvious question. |
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AMD close to $5.5 billion deal for ATI
"Andrew" wrote in message ...
On Sat, 22 Jul 2006 00:47:43 GMT, "EDM" wrote: Clone hardware meets bad drivers. Sounds like a marriage made in hell. Yeah, just like clueless idiots and Usenet. Ain't it the truth? |
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AMD close to $5.5 billion deal for ATI
EDM wrote: "AirRaid Mach 2.5" wrote in message oups.com... CNN Money: http://wwwtinyurl.com/outhh AMD seen close to $5.5 billion chip deal Clone hardware meets bad drivers. Sounds like a marriage made in hell. more articles on the subject: http://www.tinyurl.com/hjswl http://www.tinyurl.com/kdkvy http://www.tinyurl.com/eth5k http://www.gamespot.com/news/6154489.html http://www.tinyurl.com/l2par http://www.tinyurl.com/hwhvk |
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AMD close to $5.5 billion deal for ATI
Clone hardware meets bad drivers.
Sounds like a marriage made in hell. Clone hardware? Where you been the last 10years? |
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AMD close to $5.5 billion deal for ATI
"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. |
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AMD close to $5.5 billion deal for ATI
On Fri, 21 Jul 2006 17:32:38 -0700, AirRaid Mach 2.5 wrote:
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. it will be interesting when the next gen of cpus are produced on cpu processes, if you think about it its way more profitable to produce a high end gpu at 65nm than a low end cpu like intel currently does, expect to see a couple of things, firstly gpu speeds ramp a lot faster and seconly intel buy nvidia and try to destroy them. |
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AMD close to $5.5 billion deal for ATI
EDM wrote:
"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. Maybe if you would just install them and use them instead of trying to debug them when they don't need debugging you would have fewer problems. You are aware are you not that the latest generation of Intel chips are clones of AMD chips. -- --John to email, dial "usenet" and validate (was jclarke at eye bee em dot net) |
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AMD close to $5.5 billion deal for ATI
"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? Man that's an understatment. OMFG! Intel is now copying AMD and that clueless idiot still calls AMD clone hardware?!? His Mama must have kept that closet door locked tight these past 10 years or so LOL. He must have posed that nonsense from a 486. |
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