While I understood the reason for acquiring ATI, I believe ATI is worse off due to that acquisition. They are still hemorrhaging money (not nearly as bad as a year ago when they lost $1.2 BILLION, but even after restructuring to cut 31% of their operating costs, they still lost $162 million last year). We would have CPU's that are only soldered directly into motherboards with no ability to upgrade, completely locked down CPUs with no ability to overclock, locked in memory bus speeds that are tiered based on the CPU/motherboard that you purchased with higher performance memory compatibility costing you extra, etc., etc.īut I really don't see a way that AMD can compete at this point. I really hope AMD does survive because those of us that are old enough to remember know that Intel hates the consumer and only really pushes technology when it is competing. ![]() This is finally cutting into the one thing keeping AMD alive. The last two updates that Intel has made were more focused on the lower end than on the high end. ![]() On the low end, AMD was competing, until Intel decided to compete in this market segment.
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