AMD is Buying ATI!

Oh, my gods! That's big news! It has been in the rumors for some time now, but it was just officially announced that AMD is going to acquire ATI in its entirety for some $5.5 billion! (The number is probably off, because it depends on the stock share value of the companies.) I don't know what I should make out of this deal. I've always liked AMD far better than Intel (that's primarily because of the segmented memory model of x86, (Intel was responsible for that, not AMD) and my problems with it in the early years of my programming! You know what they say, old hatereds die hard!) But recently Intel has introduced its Core 2 Duo processors which just knocks all other processors out of the competition, performance- and power- and price-wise. And I've never hidden the fact that I've always prefered nVidia GPUs. They're just more stylish! (For the record, I have an Athlon 64 3000+ on nForce3 250 with a GeForce 6600.) Of course with the merger, nVidia is going to receive the most heat. Anyway, I guess my next system will be a dual core Intel CPU with a (maybe SLI) nVidia GPU. I'll have to wait and see.