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Intel wants to charge 50 bucks to unlock preexisting features on your processor
tomoya-kun:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on September 22, 2010, 06:56:23 PM ---
--- Quote from: sdedalus83 on September 22, 2010, 03:14:11 PM ---At the time AMD assimilated ATI, ATI was on the verge of releasing a product which would have killed the company had it not been assimilated - it nearly killed AMD for fuck's sake. AMD's process tweaking and ATI's design teams saved both companies when they produced RV670.
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Do you mean they were on verge killing their own company? I am sure their sales were really good at the time of assimilation, and I don't remember them being on verge of bankruptcy at that time.
And if they would have killed AMD, good riddance, it would give new manufacturers a chance to present their product on the market.
Besides, killing off a brand like that is still very stupid in my opinion. There is a reason why Toyota doesn't kill Lexus.
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AMD/ATI has small market share, but creates competition to drive Intel sales. Intel pretty much has a monopoly at the moment anyway. If they actually had one, it would be illegal
fohfoh:
--- Quote from: tomoya-kun on September 22, 2010, 09:41:28 PM ---
--- Quote from: AceHigh on September 22, 2010, 06:56:23 PM ---
--- Quote from: sdedalus83 on September 22, 2010, 03:14:11 PM ---At the time AMD assimilated ATI, ATI was on the verge of releasing a product which would have killed the company had it not been assimilated - it nearly killed AMD for fuck's sake. AMD's process tweaking and ATI's design teams saved both companies when they produced RV670.
--- End quote ---
Do you mean they were on verge killing their own company? I am sure their sales were really good at the time of assimilation, and I don't remember them being on verge of bankruptcy at that time.
And if they would have killed AMD, good riddance, it would give new manufacturers a chance to present their product on the market.
Besides, killing off a brand like that is still very stupid in my opinion. There is a reason why Toyota doesn't kill Lexus.
--- End quote ---
AMD/ATI has small market share, but creates competition to drive Intel sales. Intel pretty much has a monopoly at the moment anyway. If they actually had one, it would be illegal
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Sorta... probably they'd get forced to split and be forced to compete with itself.
tomoya-kun:
--- Quote from: fohfoh on September 22, 2010, 10:54:19 PM ---
--- Quote from: tomoya-kun on September 22, 2010, 09:41:28 PM ---
--- Quote from: AceHigh on September 22, 2010, 06:56:23 PM ---
--- Quote from: sdedalus83 on September 22, 2010, 03:14:11 PM ---At the time AMD assimilated ATI, ATI was on the verge of releasing a product which would have killed the company had it not been assimilated - it nearly killed AMD for fuck's sake. AMD's process tweaking and ATI's design teams saved both companies when they produced RV670.
--- End quote ---
Do you mean they were on verge killing their own company? I am sure their sales were really good at the time of assimilation, and I don't remember them being on verge of bankruptcy at that time.
And if they would have killed AMD, good riddance, it would give new manufacturers a chance to present their product on the market.
Besides, killing off a brand like that is still very stupid in my opinion. There is a reason why Toyota doesn't kill Lexus.
--- End quote ---
AMD/ATI has small market share, but creates competition to drive Intel sales. Intel pretty much has a monopoly at the moment anyway. If they actually had one, it would be illegal
--- End quote ---
Sorta... probably they'd get forced to split and be forced to compete with itself.
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Which is like holding a monopoly but pretending that you are not. That exact situation happens in Canada with electronics stores Best Buy and Future Shop.
AceHigh:
--- Quote from: tomoya-kun on September 22, 2010, 09:41:28 PM ---AMD/ATI has small market share, but creates competition to drive Intel sales. Intel pretty much has a monopoly at the moment anyway. If they actually had one, it would be illegal
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Yeah, but ATI alone was always close to 40-50% of market share with Nvidia on video card market. Therefore I can't see why they had to merge.
tomoya-kun:
--- Quote from: AceHigh on September 23, 2010, 01:50:07 AM ---
--- Quote from: tomoya-kun on September 22, 2010, 09:41:28 PM ---AMD/ATI has small market share, but creates competition to drive Intel sales. Intel pretty much has a monopoly at the moment anyway. If they actually had one, it would be illegal
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Yeah, but ATI alone was always close to 40-50% of market share with Nvidia on video card market. Therefore I can't see why they had to merge.
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ATI is doing well, but AMD Processors are getting owned by Intel ones. For Q1 2010, Intel holds 87% of mobile processor market and 71% of desktop processor market. And of those AMD sales, most were low end processors.
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