AMD and ATI join forces

[wikki]

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you got a point, but if they did decide to buy ati instead of amd. int never hurts to expand your market.

[StyM]

after all those years where nvidia was supplying amd with quality chipset for their cpu...
what a stab in the back...

[dagget]

so there won't be crossfire in conroe

and sli isn't fully supported by intel

if you look way back when sli was introduced to athlon64 platforms.... intel immediately asked even begged nvidia to make it available to P 4 systems.......

[EarlZ]

after all those years where nvidia was supplying amd with quality chipset for their cpu...
what a stab in the back...

I dont see the point of this, ATI is a major GPU IHV and nvidia is both GPU and Chipset, whats the chipset business have to do with this..
anyway whats the real plan for AMD and ATI ?[br]Posted on: July 24, 2006, 11:19:18 PM_________________________________________________

so there won't be crossfire in conroe

and sli isn't fully supported by intel

if you look way back when sli was introduced to athlon64 platforms.... intel immediately asked even begged nvidia to make it available to P 4 systems.......

Never heard Intel "begged" about it. must have missed the news.
SLI isnt fully supported on Intel but can actually run on those chipsets w/o a single problem.. due to the hacked drivers. SLI is only driver basis mostly as long as the chipset supports the native PCIe 16x on both ports then SLI can be enabled via driver hacks.

[EarlZ]

The only down side that i see here is *IF* AMD and ATI can monopolize the highend market with AM3 this could result in a AMD-nvidia or Intel-Ati inefficienty or out right incompatible.. but lets hope that doesnt happen..

[StyM]

I dont see the point of this, ATI is a major GPU IHV and nvidia is both GPU and Chipset, whats the chipset business have to do with this..
anyway whats the real plan for AMD and ATI ?

nForce pretty much being the fuel for AMD's XP and AMD64 CPU's, AMD/nV business platform

[EarlZ]

@StyM

But i dont see no where in the merger that nvidia said they will NOT nor never produce nforce chipsets for AMD, you assume to much.
even if nvidia will stop making chipsets for AMD, its not AMD's loss on the market but nvidia alone. ATI on the other hand already makes fantastic chipsets starting from the CFX3200. ( dont diss it unless you have personally used it )

[quickflight]

now this is some thing to look at the future!!!

[StyM]

and do you think they bought ati just to make gpu did i ever said nvidia will not produce any chipset for amd
as i said "after all those years where nvidia was supplying amd with quality chipset for their cpu...
what a stab in the back..."
amd bought ati so they could make their own chipset and ig, to match intel considering they're making their own chipset and ig which have a huge marketshare...

and wtf is this comment all about "dont diss it unless you have personally used it", you mean to say i can't comment because i have not used it so using one would qualify me to comment about amd and ati merger

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=3471

Specifically, it appears as though AMD and ATI are planning unified, scalable platforms using a mixture of AMD CPUs, ATI chipsets and ATI GPUs. This sort of multi-GPU, multi-CPU architecture is extremely reminiscent of AMD's Torrenza technology announced this past June, which allows low-latency communications between chipset, CPU and main memory. The premise for Torrenza is to open the channel for embedded chipset development from 3rd party companies. AMD said the technology is an open architecture, allowing what it called "accelerators" to be plugged into the system to perform special duties, similar to the way we have a dedicated GPU for graphics.

[EarlZ]

you completely misunderstood my post. but thanks for reading it anyway. and thanks for the links