Advanced Micro Devices, who has been withdrawing from all the everywhere, except the x86 microprocessor market, may enter several new markets at once, if it acquires ATI Technologies, the world’s leading supplier of standalone graphics chips, as the rumors suggest. In this column X-bit labs and leading industry analysts attempt to estimate the possibility of the takeover and the impact the potential deal may have on the industry.

Credit to XbitLabs.com

If this story turns out to be true, then the first generation of AMD processors with ATI Technology in them are going to be very interesting.

I mean can you a imagine if AMD built a processor with ATI technology inside that could handle both graphics and processing with ease at the same time without the use of a graphics card? Wild......

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I donth think it would be a good idea to intergrate both CPU and GPU into the same thing though.. First problem is what ram does it use? Then you have upgradeability problems...

It would be very interesting to see what happens though, and what nVidia might do.. Strike a deal with Intel? heh. Although since ATI are making chipsets now I think AMD would take huge advantage of that.

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"I donth think it would be a good idea to intergrate both CPU and GPU into the same thing though.."

If they integrate a 7900GTX onto a FX62, how much you think they will sell it for??

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Ooopz, what I meant was Radeon X1900xtx

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Well you would always have the option to add in another graphics card while at the same time still be able to use the intergrated graphics on the processor which will help even futher to keep the 3D porcess on the processor from being the bottleneck.

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Considering there is no reason to assume this will happen it makes it hard to calculate, eh?

Well it started with the PS3. remember that PS3 claimed its cell processor was going to be so powerful that it would be able to do just that without a seperate grpahics unit, but later on Sony dropped that theory. Many proclaimed that the reason why they dropped that theory was because designing a processor like that would push the PS3 to near a grand. So Sony dropped it and added a seperate Intergrated graphics unit instead.

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and today... AMD bought ATi for 5.4billion dollars

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