ATI is kicking Nvidia everywhere, price and performance. NVidia is kicking customers with bad products that they know are shite and will fail.

AMD's cpu's are not as good for gaming, but they are still cheap, cheerful and powerful enough for the 95% of PC buyers. That's where the real money is.

AMD has ATI so they can provide a 1-stop-shop solution, CPU, GPU and motherboard chipsets to the Taiwanese, and so to the rest of us.

AMD is still kicking Intel for some server stuff, including Virtualisation.

Thar hors fete had ner all away!

All those poor workers who actually produced somethign useful, and what does AMD do with their money? They pay Charlie "the shill" Demerjian to write anti-NVIDIA propoganda.

This is now the 3rd time AMD has "taken a charge" on the ATI acquisition. Exactly how many times can you value, re-value, re-re-value, re-re-re-value ATI? Also, don't non-profit organizations pay no/reduced taxes?

AMD needs one heck of a breakthrough or financial angel right now. Their only hope is a breakthrough of the Athlon 64 (vs the P4 at the initial release) now if they don't find a angel with bags of money. That's not entirely unlikely: see the Dubai foundry deal.