A couple of months back I gave my initial thoughts on the
ATI + AMD merger and my fears for what may become of their merger. Well as of today the merger is considered a done deal with AMD making their newest adopted kid on the block ATI feel cozy in the AMD subdomain system (
ATI.com redirects to
ATI.AMD.com). There's also the formal announcement of
Fusion which is (in simple terms) where the CPU & GPU are on the same slice of silicon. This should make things interesting for the NVIDIA camp as well as how the combination will work (Eg. I avoid *any* integrated video card boards - unless its a server-box - purely because of the speed - no need to worry GPU will do the work - and the shared memory issues), will they somehow have a seperate video memory chip/controller on the board or use the onboard memory? How would the combination work in terms of Cross-Fire, can you still have addon cards? Will ATI (oops AMD-ATI) continue building addin cards (even though they may be used on non-AMD boxes)... Oh so many questions and so much time before we'll know anything.
Just another brain dump. Sad to see ATI go, but oh well.