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  • UtwigMU
    Super MURCer
    • Jul 2002
    • 5651

    #1

    Ars: ATI a takeover target?



    Takeover rumors started in June, when the company's third quarter results were less than impressive, and were followed by weak projections for the fourth quarter. Rumors indicate that both AMD and Intel are interested in ATI, as are Broadcom and Texas Instruments.
  • Gurm
    MS Fanboy
    • Aug 1999
    • 11460

    #2
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    • Jammrock
      The Berserker
      • Aug 1999
      • 8661

      #3
      Originally posted by Gurm
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      • High_Jumbllama
        Super MURCer
        • Dec 1999
        • 4522

        #4

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        • bsdgeek
          Super MURCer
          • Feb 2002
          • 1543

          #5
          TI could make some sick calculators.

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          • UtwigMU
            Super MURCer
            • Jul 2002
            • 5651

            #6
            Well Creative took over 3D Labs and not much has changed for them.

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            • Admiral
              Super MURCer
              • Aug 2000
              • 3125

              #7
              if it's true, I'm hoping for Intel

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              • Taz
                Super MURCer
                • Nov 1999
                • 1393

                #8
                Originally posted by Admiral
                if it's true, I'm hoping for Intel
                Yep then the Extreme in their extreme graphics controller might mean something positive
                When you own your own business you only have to work half a day. You can do anything you want with the other twelve hours.

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                • KvHagedorn
                  Super MURCer
                  • Aug 1999
                  • 10725

                  #9
                  I hope they DON'T get taken over, but if they do, I would wish for AMD rather than Intel.

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                  • Wombat
                    Super MURCer
                    • Aug 2000
                    • 9498

                    #10
                    There's a strong rumor, that I was never able to verify, that ATI had intel engineers come in and work on some of their chips, like the 8500. That's when ATI was fast as hell out of nowhere.
                    Gigabyte P35-DS3L with a Q6600, 2GB Kingston HyperX (after *3* bad pairs of Crucial Ballistix 1066), Galaxy 8800GT 512MB, SB X-Fi, some drives, and a Dell 2005fpw. Running WinXP.

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                    • UtwigMU
                      Super MURCer
                      • Jul 2002
                      • 5651

                      #11
                      There were rumours also about R9700 being hand tuned by intel engineers.

                      As per AMD, AMD is in bed with nVidia wrt to chipsets at the moment.

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                      • Liquid Snake
                        Super MURCer
                        • Aug 1999
                        • 2216

                        #12
                        Originally posted by Jammrock
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                        Originally posted by High_Jumbllama
                        I agree with these posts!

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                        • DGhost
                          Super MURCer
                          • May 2000
                          • 2573

                          #13
                          **** that shit. they need a massive change of management. and their entire software department to get summarily fired.

                          ****ing retards.
                          "And yet, after spending 20+ years trying to evolve the user interface into something better, what's the most powerful improvement Apple was able to make? They finally put a god damned shell back in." -jwz

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                          • Taz
                            Super MURCer
                            • Nov 1999
                            • 1393

                            #14
                            Originally posted by Wombat
                            There's a strong rumor, that I was never able to verify, that ATI had intel engineers come in and work on some of their chips, like the 8500. That's when ATI was fast as hell out of nowhere.
                            If that's the case why haven't they produced a decent graphics controller of their own
                            When you own your own business you only have to work half a day. You can do anything you want with the other twelve hours.

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                            • Nowhere
                              Super MURCer
                              • Jun 2002
                              • 4830

                              #15
                              Perhaps that wasn't Intels goal? Perhaps they didn't want Nvidia dominating the place?

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