wow they actually picked up the canadian company finally the canadians r getting light!!! o well im a nvidia user go 7900series!

more work on integrated card, eh? Well, that means in like 2008 you'll be buying a computer with an integrated X1900 lol. I don't really care much and I also use both ATI and AMD.

i use Ati and AMD so.. good news for me =), i think...

Nvidia FTW

there is a rule: big fish eats little fish...
amd knows what are they doing, and these... 5mln$ WOW!
this is not unexpected - before a year i thought ati and amd have contracts and nvidia works with intel!! just look the prices!
ati and amd stays always on one side! and now.. amd is going to turn into the bigger fish than nvidia or intel.. its not THAT simple but... these are the things that everybody can see,right?

Great , Intel is scruwed..... Nvidia is a tricky company ,,, AMD , ATI and Microsoft.....Damn this is good

I personaly hate ATi but AMD is good too its just I prefer a Intel 3.2ghz over a AMD whatsamahoochi with HT. Nvidia + Intel FTW!!!

ATI = crap
Nvidia = way to go

I was always a fan of nvidia in the beginning, but since the ati 9800pro, I have since been using ati cards, I own an amd64 3700 with nvidia 7900 gpu....it's a great pc, however, my p4 3ghz ati x800xt pe system is superior.......both sport 2gb ddr400 and 200gb sata hdd, and ofcourse asus deluxe mobo'z.

I don't like this merger.....I don't think it's a good sign by ati......things can't be all gravy if there doing this, you shouldn't need more resources from another major company to compete with nvidia if all things were juicy.

Nice...

Should be good.

00Rambol00: "Hey nice one for AMD and ATi !
Comon people AMD kicks intel's ass any day, i mean am not willin to pay frickin $999 for a Intel core 2, thats just playing stupid."

Hey fanboy, get your facts right. A $400 Core 2 Duo is faster in ANYTHING (games, media, office) than a $800 FX-62. What do you have to say about that? Intel is the current price-performance leader and guess what? It's also the benchmarks leader.

And sorry, to be so blunt, but any gamer who wants to buy a new processor now should avoid AMD. Why? Well for the same damn reason why we avoided the Pentium 4 and Pentium D processors for two years.

Some of you fanboys have been going on and on with the "OMG QUAD-CORE AMD PWNS! INTEL SUX!" well know that the current quad-core solution that AMD are getting ready to release is based on K8, whereas Intel's quad-core solution, Kentsfield, is based on the Core architechture (literally two Conroes in one). Now, we already know of K8 and Core which architecture reigns supreme now, so get a grip and accept the truth.

I'm all for this idea. Plus I'm happy for the people at ATI. 5.4 BILLION is no small sum to anyone.

ATI and AMD rulz!!!!!

well good job amd, now, what to do about that intel core 2....hmmmmmm.......

If only the aquired Nvidia....which would never happen lol!

Man everyone here is a bunch of newbs for one only idiots who know nothing about there cards will not get much performance our mess there own card up. As much as I know with any video card our any pc for that matter as long as you got good cooling and not overheating anything there really should be any major problems.

i read somewhere about integrating the gpu into the cpu, to make games, in a word, better. if they can pull that off, ill be willing to accept this merger. but as of right now, that leaves only Nvidia as the only independent gpu makers on the market, and with them ill stay. SLI makes life better.

"All true hardcore gamers know that AMD are gaming processors and ATI is the perfect match.

AMD+ATI=Match made in heaven"

QFT.

If "integrated graphics" means "more than 4MB of VRAM" then I'm all for it.

AMD cpu will burn up in less then a second without that fan constantly going. AMD will be toasted. Atleast with intel if ur fan goes u just wait a hour or more and its ok again. I have a Intel Pentium4 2.8ghz and a ATi 9550 video card with 256mb, and 2gigs of RAM. My games never played better then they do now. Wheni was on AMD it was all crappy and laggy graphics. Now its smooth with intel+ati

ATI ummm nice move.

AMD + ATI = ME

Bad thing in my mind. The competition between ATI and Nvidia was fantastic before, with each doing their absolute best to continually one-up the other in both price and performance. I'm not sure that will remain the case now.

good for both of them... lets what these two can give to the gamers..

I wonder how this will effect the relationship between nVidia and AMD since nVidia makes some of the best motherboard chipsets for AMD processors.

Woow finally. Ati = More bangs for your bucks
AMD good CPUs but the new Core 2 Duo are better at games and cheaper. Come on AMD Get back up there.

I like AMD, but I'm more of a Nvidia guy myself.

I'm not sure waht this means just yet but i want extreme sports to merge with ice skating so we could have bungee ice capades

All true hardcore gamers know that AMD are gaming processors and ATI is the perfect match.

AMD+ATI=Match made in heaven

ATI+AMD Strange. I thought AMD+Nvidia, I guess not anymore. What next? Intel+Nvidia??

give me an amd nvidia deal and im cool

this is not beans with me man

but what the hell ever, what does my opinion count for anyway?

The bundles that AMD+ATI will offer should help people who are looking for a good deal on a nice computer.

On the other hand, I don't think it will affect PC enthusiasts that much. I just go after what I think is the best product.

Nvidia will still be compatible with AMD and ATI with Intel.

I don't like this

monopoly

I want Pepsi to merge with Coke. Then we can have Pepsi Classic and Mountain Sprite...

Come on DX10 cards... taking too long... hurry up... can't... wait... much... longer... ... ...

Intel is left in the dark wondering how they will cope with research and development funding, now that the two companies have combined resources. A sharing of Idea's to intergrate cpu and gpu intergration, while ATI will just be a division of AMD and still have its core business practics like desktop GPU, Chipset, mobile and mobile chipset, platform chips, tv set top box chips.
They will be the just be industry leader and Itel will be playing catch up by trying to take share of the GPU/chipset market. They just won't be able to compete with the new AMD now.

I couldn't care less.

AMD and ATI are the best, now lets see they crashing Intel and Nvidea, and now i need to buy a high end computer, maybe after 5 years.

Oh my god.

Perhaps now the $500-1k dollar systems of the world, with integrated graphics, just might run games that have been out for a few years.

I hate intel for good reason.

I don't like intel very much, their intel 4 processor couldn't play CoD 2 but the AMD 64 3200 could. and all they do is advertise non stop. Oh oh intel pentium 4 runs great on this and runs great on that buy it now BUY IT!!!
They are expensive....

I'm going to have to chose right now between a rock and a hard place. Wether to keep my amd processor and switch over to an ati gfx card, or keep my nvidia gfx and switch to an intel.

come on... do you really believe that in intel based PC the ATI card wont work perfect? do you believe that in a AMD based PC an nVidia wont work perfect? they will continue wanting to sell as many as they can... they will be happy to sell amd processors to nVidia fans and they will enjoy selling ATIs cards to intel processors fans.... dont think that this will change... what it will change is that if they where great (no matter what you think) separated.... together they will rock the business... intel and nvidia warent in my good graces.... and now they wont have the weapons to win me back... no sr.

i always liked amd-nvidia systems.
ati sux :/ rly

YES!!! The globalization of business has once again visited the gaming industry. Finally one step closer to squeezing the life out of independent, creative smaller companies.

Actually this merging sucks, because it will mean that from now on ATI graphic cards will work waaayyyy better with AMD based machines than Intel based ones. I mean come on it's quite obvious that AMD won't mind in making their GPUs work fine with the competition hardware, that's just plain stupid, nobody wants to give their competition the chance of earning a dime with your products, so the thing will be like "if you want to squeeze the juice out of your ATI GPU you MUST have an AMD based PC".
Either way I don't care 'cause I own an Intel micro, and a Nvidia Graphic card.

And doktron, "WHAT DO YOU PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT BUSINESS MERGERS! DO ANY OF YOU EVEN HAVE AN MBA? DO YOU EVEN KNOW WHAT AN MBA IS?"
I don't have an MBA, but I do have a Bachelor's Degree in Bussiness Management, so I kinda get this stuff.

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my two favority company, now it one!!!

and the new company name will be ami???