Originally posted by Big Daddy Kane:
This is an interesting article: Tom's Hardware

Brings up some points...

Not only is Intel ATI's "most important" customer, but this makes some problems between AMD and Nvidia.

Nvidia makes a lot of chipsets for AMD boards... technically Nvidia is now a competitor.

I wonder what this will do? Nvidia making chipsets for a competitor's board, or will they do a switcharoo and have Intel using a lot more Nvidia?

Originally posted by TG Article:

An interesting twist to the deal is that Nvidia, which has been one of AMD's most important chipset partners in the past, will now become one of the key competitors of AMD. "We understand that and we welcome that," said AMD president and chief operating officer Dirk Meyer.





Frankly, I'm likin' it. I like AMD processors & ATI vid cards, so this suits me just fine.

Historically AMD has had problems in the power consumption area of mobile computing. An integrated graphics/vid platform with the known ATI ability to perform in laptops might be a great benefit to the future of AMD. Who knows how much of that technology/architecture will translate to the AMD processors.

Beyond that, people who like NVidia with their nForce boards for AMD chips will have a new choice in ATI architecture boards. Getting exciting for me as all my best computers have had nForce boards & ATI graphics cards with AMD CPUs. A better integrated ATI board/GPU presents a great opportunity.

The merger doesn't seem to bother nVidia at all as they now see themselves as the LAST large independent GPU provider in the market. A good spot for them to be in if they don't mind maintaining a huge diversity of products.

Must be that jumbly-wumbly thing happening again.