Figures that a copycat company can copy a Processor and succeed, but they buy one of the best graphics card companies and they end up ruining that company's name.

What a shame to see a company like AMD going down the tubes, i suppose I should stop waiting for a new socket and cpu from AMD and just get a 4870 before they stop making them also.

Wow, there were great products coming out of this group. Did they even try to find a buyer for this division?

theINQ has carried story about AMD & Nvidia being on short end of legal trouble. Clincher came to Court just few days ago in form of E-Mail from AMD To Nvidia offerring to conspire together over LOW Stock prices of two. Whomp, Out Goes Ruiz.

AMD is Clearly in Serious trouble. When Central European company combines with English company, Usually entire Business Collaspes. English would Eat their Own & Central Euro would Attack well before anyone crossed border. Its Hard To Cooperate in English system.

Blame Game May Have Taken Hold, while real blame is in structure, NOT Product. Every Bit AMD Lets Go Of, Is Gone. Ultie Correction Prediction at $2.50 tends to See Bankruptcy as Natural Order Of Things. Shurely Many Will Lose Their Knickers.As Soiled As They Be.

Where Have ALL Soldiers Gone? Long Time Passing. Ka-Bam, Head On Collision.
drashek

I used to work for the ATI Handheld group. Despite the name, the group mostly made chips for mobile phones (rather than PDAs). I'm disappointed their closing the group down -- a lot of good people did a lot of great work there. The Imageon chip first controlled the phone LCD panel, then the next one had 2D graphics acceleration, and the next added JPEG encoding/decoding on the chip, followed by camera control, and so on. By the time I left, the "display" chip controlled the camera, had 3D acceleration, had audio/video codecs running on internal DSPs, controlled the SD cards, and a huge amount of other stuff all done with a slow as Hell clock and minuscule power draw. The chip did everything on the phone except the "phoning" part :).

When I left a few years ago the group was still hugely profitable, with profit growing every quarter, so it's sad to see the token "new-CEO-so-I-have-to-announce-my-presence" move to be to axe the whole division.

ATI will be missed by me in this aspect. ATI was known for quality TV picture, where nvidia was fast but sloppy with their TV color and Intel is just an unknown.

And with nvidia struggling right now the prospects of looking to Intel for this type of gear does not inspire confidence.

Xilleon, maybe go it alone? Seems to be working for DVICO. Give it a go!

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