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Originally Posted by biff  I've been an ATI user for a lot of years and my 8800GT is my first nVidea card in well... ever. Nice to see ATI starting to get their wheels again being the home team and all. That merger with AMD just about sunk both companies or I suppose the ONE company but I have no idea how that could possibly happen given each success prior to the merger but apparently it did. Or was it a take over??? Either way I'm sure it's hard to develop a product with no $$$.
Nice to see that there may be some good competition again to hopefully help spur some new developments. |
Yup, it's always nice to have competition.
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Originally Posted by Jmac Well the merger happened at a really bad time for both companies. Both of their competitors came out w/ stellar products that were well beyond expectation (8800 series from Nvidia, Core 2 Duo from Intel) shortly after the merger and AMD/ATI has just been trying to keep its head above water ever since. ATI's making progress slowly but surely ... AMD, on the other hand, needs to get fast Phenoms on shelves quickly at low prices ... |
Looks like they have their work cut out for them. And their financial situation right now really isn't helping any.
*Waits for Phenom 4GHz*