News Bye bye ATI?

Quick U-turn or false alarm? Makes no sense really to kill the ATI name and logo, too well-known.

 

Either way, who cares what it's called, it's the same kit with a different badge

 

Disappointment

Firstly, being Canadian, I am disappointed that ATi was swallowed by an American company.

Secondly, I think the decision to drop the ATi brand is idiotic. The ATi brand has been around since the Mach64. Why would they want to drop a respectable company brand? For non-AMD fans (like me), the video card segment may loose valuable fans/customers.

 

http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20060808-7446.html

Eh?

 

Well. Anybody who knows anything about computers knows that AMD "had" the best price per performance processor. The general public does not know this and still purchases Intel processors. AMD might have gained a little market share on them but Intel still holds the spotlight. Again, I am referring to the general public, not someone like me and you reading these forums. For example, my oldest brother recently bought 5 intel based computers for his clinic even though I told him AMD was his best price per performance.

Also, now that intel has released Dual Core 2. AMD is no longer the best price per performance. And no matter how you say it, Intel has much more market share then AMD in the past and present.

Don't believe me? Google something. Here's one.
Again, AMD might be gaining but intel is still in the lead by a lot.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/27/technology/amd_update/index.htm

 

Funny because, if Amd (usually seen by its fanclub as an "Anti-monopolistic" compagnie) were to "dismantle" ATI, would that make Nvidia the one and only running the graphic card market? Thus promoting some kind of monopole?

 

Why would it mean that Nvidia has a monopoly? AMD/ATi will still make graphics cards, Matrox makes graphics cards and Itel make on board graphics and will proberly make sepperate cards in the near future.

 

im not sure if thats true now, now that AMD slashed prices (to combat conroes pwnage) AMD may still be the best price/peformance, while intel has the best performance

 

My ATi 9600SE is green...

I hope they keep the name, because its good and using the ATi name will help keep processors and graphics cards seperate. AMD procs and AMD graphics would make it difficult for non-techies to figure out what is what, and possibly what theyre actually buying. :S

 

There was an article on AMD price cuts on here earlier. I can't find it. But when i read it,i compared it to intel pricing at anandtech and Intel is cheaper price per performance.

http://anandtech.com/cpuchipsets/showdoc.aspx?i=2802

 

cheers for the info