Processor war heats up faster than a Prescott

[zachig]

Computex has become a platform in the tech communty's town square for Intel and AMD to publicly flog one another.

Rumors swirled earlier this week when Forbes reported that AMD and ATI were considering a merger. Some vehemently disagreed with the prediction. Ryan Shrout of PC Perspective wrote on Wednesday that a merger between AMD and Nvidia would make more sense, because "Nvidia chipsets are the better of the AMD marketplace for the desktop segment" and has "stronger technology coming up the pipeline". Meanwhile, Charles Demerjian of the Inquirer is absolutely convinced the marger will take place, saying that GPU and CPU technologies are becoming so intertwined that it's a necessary move for AMD to continue to compete against the better-financed Intel.


You can read more HERE (http://www.short-media.com/extendednews.php?n=5110).

[Kougar]

Hmm... I had already heard some evidence that no such merger was going or planned to take place on AMD's part, so I am not to sure right now...

Another thing is ATI is pretty closely tied into Intel right now, first through their implementation of Crossfire on Intel's 975X chipset, and also ATI's upcoming RD600 chipset for the Intel platform that should make some waves if it lives up to expectations. ATI is even working with Intel to see about a possible fix for the 965 chipset to enable support x8+x8 PCIe Crossfire...

[zachig]

I guess we'll just have to wait and see...:???:

If such a merge WILL take place eventually, I think it will be a really GREAT step for AMD, in their "war" against Intel...:roll:

Anyway, I say: WAY TO GO...AMD!!! :mrgreen:

[XJnine]

Even though it looks like AMD/Nvidia and ATI/Intel are current buddies I could see why an AMD/ATI merger would make sense for ATI. Nvidia is the largest producer of core logic for AMD cpu's. If ATI and AMD merge Nvidia will then be putting a ton of R&D money and resources into making their competitor stronger (ATI) by making all the chipsets and if Nvidia decides they don't want to do that it will seriously cripple them as that would take out a large part of their income.

ATI could easily ramp up production of their AMD chipsets (which would probably be of good quality since they will have the AMD engineers too) and they would continue to produce a good quality Intel chipset. They could drop the Intel chipset altogether since ATI and Nvidia have an incredibly small market share on Intel CPU core logic, but why give Nvidia an opportunity to expand their product line in an uncontested arena. Intel still dominates their own cpu core logic by far so neither ATI nor Nvidia will probably ever be very profitable in the Intel chipset race.