XGI stays its own

THERE have been a lot of rumours about ATI and XGI. The smaller graphics player was acquired by ATI but the red boys just took over the Shanghai and USA based teams. We are talking about roughly 100 people in China and much less in the USA. ATI didn't want to keep all of the expensive USA people so it dispensed with some jobs.

XGI actually was trying to find the way to exit the graphic business. The key shareholders, UMC and SIS, wanted to find a way out and ATI showed up with the cash and that's what happened.

XGI will remain in business, but it will rather do some embedded production and will try to do custom designs for the specific customers. The company learned that this can actually get them some money and they do need to be more profitable.

We have confirmed that there won't be any consumer graphic chips from XGI so Volari is going to history and some of the XGI marchitecture might find its way to ATI's future marchitecture. µ