SAN FRANCISCO - Advanced Micro Devices Inc., said it will pay $5.4 billion to acquire top graphics chip maker ATI Technologies Inc., as Intel Corp.'s biggest rival in the market for personal-computer microprocessors attempts to expand its product portfolio.
Under terms approved unanimously by both companies' boards of directors, Sunnyvale-based AMD will pay $4.2 billion in cash and 57 million AMD shares to acquire all of ATI's outstanding stock, according to a news release.
MSNBC also wrote:
The deal also put competitive pressure on Nvidia Corp., the other dominant maker of graphics chips. Santa Clara-based Nvidia has competed against Intel in selling chipsets and graphics chips while counting on AMD for sales of those products.
If you own a PC, chances are roughly 50% that you have an ATI Radeon ..
If you don't have an ATI card then the remaining 50% are likely to be from nVidia ... there are, of course, Value-Added-Retailer (VAR) versions of these cards under different names
and .. last, but not least ... there are ON-BOARD graphics solutions built into motherboards by these folks as well
AMD is INTEL's rival in the CPU market
(who knows what is in a MAC? .. hampster technology?) ...
If you don't play computer games, you aren't likely to know what card or CPU you have .. ;o)
SAN FRANCISCO - Advanced Micro Devices Inc., said it will pay $5.4 billion to acquire top graphics chip maker ATI Technologies Inc., as Intel Corp.'s biggest rival in the market for personal-computer microprocessors attempts to expand its product portfolio.
Under terms approved unanimously by both companies' boards of directors, Sunnyvale-based AMD will pay $4.2 billion in cash and 57 million AMD shares to acquire all of ATI's outstanding stock, according to a news release.
MSNBC also wrote:
The deal also put competitive pressure on Nvidia Corp., the other dominant maker of graphics chips. Santa Clara-based Nvidia has competed against Intel in selling chipsets and graphics chips while counting on AMD for sales of those products.
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If you own a PC, chances are roughly 50% that you have an ATI Radeon ..
If you don't have an ATI card then the remaining 50% are likely to be from nVidia ... there are, of course, Value-Added-Retailer (VAR) versions of these cards under different names
and .. last, but not least ... there are ON-BOARD graphics solutions built into motherboards by these folks as well
AMD is INTEL's rival in the CPU market
(who knows what is in a MAC? .. hampster technology?) ...
If you don't play computer games, you aren't likely to know what card or CPU you have .. ;o)