{"id":336,"date":"2006-07-23T00:26:21","date_gmt":"2006-07-23T04:26:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/blog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2006-07-23T00:26:21","modified_gmt":"2006-07-23T04:26:21","slug":"i-think-intel-might-be-in-trouble-amd-to-buy-canadian-graphics-chip-giant-ati-for-55b","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/?p=336","title":{"rendered":"I Think Intel Might Be In Trouble – AMD To Buy Canadian Graphics Chip Giant ATI for $5.5B"},"content":{"rendered":"

Source says Applied Micro Devices could announce deal with #2 Canadian chipmaker as early as Monday<\/strong><\/p>\n

When I read the post at Digg, I was thinking “no way” but sure enough CNN Money is reporting the following.<\/p>\n

Advanced Micro Devices, the No. 2 supplier of computer processors, is close to a deal to buy graphics chip maker ATI for $5.5 billion, a source familiar with the situation said on Friday.<\/p>\n

Any such deal would shake up the processor industry, which is witnessing a battle over market share between AMD and larger rival Intel<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

For those who aren’t familiar, ATI is a company very close to my heart. (no disclosure needed because they are not close to my wallet. Too bad.) This Canadian giant of graphics has been a mainstay in almost every gamerz computer at some point in time via their Radeon series graphics cards\/processors.<\/p>\n

With Dell opening up to using AMD this year<\/a>, and the ATI-Dell relationship, this is not going to be pretty for Intel. AMD also laid the gauntlet<\/a> down recently and announced plans to release a true quad-core processor in 2007, which looks to have forced Intel to either open their hand up or play catch up.<\/p>\n

The only thing that could be worse is if Lenova was to sign up AMD as their primary processor supplier. (Watch for it!)<\/p>\n

It also raises a question that has me perplexed. Who would be Canada’s #1 chip maker?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Source says Applied Micro Devices could announce deal with #2 Canadian chipmaker as early as Monday When I read the post at Digg, I was thinking “no way” but sure enough CNN Money is reporting the following. Advanced Micro Devices, the No. 2 supplier of computer processors, is close to a deal to buy graphics […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[7,71],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","category-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/336\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/officiallyscrewed.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}