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Member since:2005-11-21
More importantly, this was AMD leveraging one of the main reasons it bought ATi--to own the Linux Market for Desktop and Server.
Intel is entrenched in Windows and Mac.
Linux has been much more embracing of AMD.
Ah the beauty of greater competition. May they all raise the bar.
Member since:2006-06-29
Member since:2005-11-10
You mean the Intel that released opensourced drivers for a shitload of graphics and chipsets way before AMD?
If anything, AMD has always seen Linux and OSS in general as an after thought. Their primary focus has and will be Windows.
AMD bought ATi because it needed the chipset and the GPU teams. It is likely than in the new 45nm processes we are going to see a much more SOC-approach to processor design: CPU+GPU+Chipset on a single die. Rather than just throw cores at the CPU. Whether it was a cost effective purchase is highly debatable, as ATi's purchase has been a rock around AMD's neck.
Linux had diddly squat to do with the purchasing of ATi.
Edited 2007-10-24 21:12
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2005-07-06
I do not know how much of the upper management from the origional ATI purchase that AMD kept on staff, but generally most of the high ups are fired in favor of people who will embrass the new owner's management style when this type of buyout/merger happens.
That being said, this was not ATI making good on any promises. This was AMD Making good on their promises. I also might add that AMD has a stellar track record for making good on the promises they make.
Great news for AMD/ATI and the linux community as a whole.