AMD buys ATI for 5.2 billion. I think this move can lead to very interesting sitution. It may even reshape PC as we know it. Do you remember the Math co-processors in the 80s? You buy 386, and then you buy 387 for the Math co-processor. Intel even had two different 486. the DX vs SX.
The graphics card has gone completely out of control. With new $600 videocard coming every 6 month, and both ATI and Nvidia's next videocard most likely requiring over 300watt at peak usage. It's time to think outside of the box. If you can say move the first two stages of the pipeline into one of AMD's core. You effectively would have a Graphics co-processor. It can preprocess the vertexes and maybe even do hidden surface removal before sending the data over to GPU via PCI-express bus.
Sounds unlikely? Well, people thought AMD was crazy when they put the memory controller onto AMD64 too. Look how good of a move that turned out to be. Meanwhile, AMD has done their day after Core 2 Duo price cut, basically everything is 50% off. Chip that cost $400 on Sunday, now cost $200. I saw AMD64 X2 4200 for $199 on New Egg. Hope Intel ship their Core 2 Duo soon. That cpu is selling out so fast New Egg has increased the price back up by $20.
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