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Author: | Lenas [ Mon Aug 30, 2010 12:05 pm ] |
Post subject: | RIP ATI |
http://www.engadget.com/2010/08/30/amd- ... ned-radeo/ Engadget wrote: This, dear friends, is a sad, sad day. ATI, the name of hope for all PC gamers who were sick and tired of NVIDIA rebadging the same GPU over the past couple of years, is to be no more. The callous souls over at AMD have decided that our little consumer brains aren't sophisticated enough to handle two awesome brands, so they're just axing the use of the ATI moniker from here on out. Product line names will be retained, with the Radeon and FirePro branding still intact, but ATI Eyefinity will now be known as AMD Eyefinity. The first graphics cards to, erm, benefit from the new nomenclature will ship "later this year," and the whole thing is said to have been motivated by AMD's move to Fusion APUs -- hybrid CPU and GPU chips -- where it's considered beneficial to have a unified branding strategy. Great, but did anyone consider the fact that the graphics wars will now be fought between two teams wearing green jerseys?
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Author: | Numbuk [ Tue Aug 31, 2010 9:51 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: RIP ATI |
Well that was an extreme misleading article. I hate those with a passion. |
Author: | Sasandra [ Tue Aug 31, 2010 4:26 pm ] |
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I hate when companies do stupid things like this in the first place, cause clearly they are saving so much money printing AMD on their box instead of ATI that it's worth losing a bit of brand recognition. |
Author: | Kaffis Mark V [ Tue Aug 31, 2010 10:32 pm ] |
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Sasandra, you apparently haven't been following the news. This has nothing to do with rebranding video cards. This has to do with AMD/ATi phasing out video cards in favor of integrating GPUs on-chip with the CPU. Just like AMD did eight years ago (or whatever, too lazy to look up release dates) with the memory controller. Given that their new company strategy is to have a single, unified CPU/GPU product, carrying two brand names on it is redundant and likely to be confusing. They made a decision and decided that AMD had the better brand response overall. |
Author: | Khross [ Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:11 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: RIP ATI |
AMD is currently working on a unified processor architecture that will allow them to deploy scalable AM2 devices and motherboards a lot like server clusters, but as a single device. Think about buying a motherboard with no PCI bus or slots. Rather, you have 8 or 16 AM2 slots and it scales geometrically: 2,4,8,16 CPUs all with integrated GPUs. Basically ... the CELL Writ Large and modular. |
Author: | Sasandra [ Tue Aug 31, 2010 11:19 pm ] |
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Kaffis Mark V wrote: Sasandra, you apparently haven't been following the news. This has nothing to do with rebranding video cards. This has to do with AMD/ATi phasing out video cards in favor of integrating GPUs on-chip with the CPU. Just like AMD did eight years ago (or whatever, too lazy to look up release dates) with the memory controller. Given that their new company strategy is to have a single, unified CPU/GPU product, carrying two brand names on it is redundant and likely to be confusing. They made a decision and decided that AMD had the better brand response overall. I know they are doing the whole unified CPU/GPU thing, but from what I read they will still be producing graphic cards as well and those will be rebranded AMD. I certainly would hope they wouldn't be ditching dedicated GPU cards entirely because that seems like they would be shooting themselves in the foot there as graphic cards are often replaced at least once during the lifetime of the same CPU, I know that would steer me away from AMD if everytime I wanted to upgrade my video card I essentially needed to replace the CPU too. I thought their unified CPU/GPU was basically just a CPU with a lower end GPU to offload simple calculations the GPU can do very quickly and for low priced all in one setups, not higher end systems? |
Author: | Talya [ Wed Sep 01, 2010 11:39 am ] |
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Unified CPU/GPUs will turn AMD into the killer of all intel Netbooks/CULV notebooks, but it likely won't be used at the high end, you're correct, Sas. And even if they could compete at the high end, AMD will still produce standalone GPU cards if only because a lot of intel-based computers still use radeon processors. |
Author: | Taskiss [ Fri Sep 03, 2010 7:38 am ] |
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put a R600/700 on a CPU chip/motherboard and I'd buy it, if it's priced competitively. I don't necessarily need to upgrade but I do want something with some getup. |
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