Forthcoming Dell's AMD-based notebooks, which are expected to be available in late October or early November, will be equipped with ATI Mobility Radeon graphics chips, according to sources at Taiwan notebook makers. Although it will not be the first time for the market to get AMD-based notebooks with ATI GPUs inside, Dell's offering will be the first launched after AMD's recent announcement of acquiring ATI for US$5.4 billion, the sources noted.
Dell's decision to use ATI GPUs in AMD-based notebooks indicates that the impact of AMD's acquisition of ATI on the PC industry will likely start intensifying in the near future, the sources said.
News source: DigiTimes
Dell's decision to use ATI GPUs in AMD-based notebooks indicates that the impact of AMD's acquisition of ATI on the PC industry will likely start intensifying in the near future, the sources said.
News source: DigiTimes
What's with the anti-AMD/ATi person (Beastage)?
What's with the anti-AMD/ATi person (Beastage)?
I run into alot of ppl that are anti- AMD/ATI. I don't know why. I love amd/ati and that's all i use. Plus now that they are one company amd is going to kick butt on graphic cards and drivers i bet.
As for AMD, I hope they make a comeback soon. I would hate to see Intel become the only player... again.
way to few laptop manufacturers use NVIDIA though. it's increased lately though.
way to few laptop manufacturers use NVIDIA though. it's increased lately though.
Yea well if nvidia and intel merged you would never hear the end of the bowell movement thay would take ,Like these sites that tout the Conroe as amazing , Huh excuse me but at high rez theres almost no gains or man I can encode my movie 30 seconds faster big deal.
I think it is only a matter of time until we see AMD back on top. Intel have been luck with the Core 2 Duo's, and congratulations to them also as they have had a bad run since AMD released the 64+ range.
This means competition will be as strong as ever, and us as consumers are the real winners !!! YAY for us =)
and once Intel dropped the lucrative exclusivity agreement with Dell, they would make far more money off the AMD fans rather than stay exclusively intel withotu a lucrative exlcusivity deal.
well that's my view on it anyway.might be wrong, but the timing of it all seems awfully suspicius.
Dell is still the largest OEM manufacturer in the world and to have them build AMD based servers and laptops is a big win for the AMD camp anyway you slice it.
AMD is now recognised, plus the aquiring of ATi means the main battle is about to begin
Im sure we'll see a lot of manufacturers and companies changing positions vastly over the next few years, some going to pro-intel and some going pro-AMD.
We alrleayd knew they would start sellign laptops with AMD cpu's, and they've pretty mcuh allways sold laptops with ATI cards.... so 1+1=2...
The rgeat move was back when they decided to go with AMD cpu's. this is just an announcement of what configuratiosn they'd be in, to start with.
what WOULD be a great move however would be if Dell would make a laptop model where you would be abel to choose what CPU(Intel/AMD) you wanted, what Graphics(ATI/NVIDIA) card you wanted, AND what size/quality screen you want.
It's way to hard to get the laptop you want out there.
When you finally find thelaptop you want, it's got a crappy 15 inch screen with a 1024 resolution. And then when you find a laptop with a good 15 inch widescreen screen and with high res (14xx+). then it's only got an underpowered ATI card.
I think this final line is useless. This will do nothing to the PC industry. You will still be able to buy a motherboard for an AMD processor in the future, and you will still be able to use nVidia on them. Notebooks are a different animal, but I still think AMD will not go ATI exclusively. That would not be a good idea on their part. When the acquisition is complete, I doubt there will be any change in the PC industry.
And it won't affect home builders at all, most likely.
HOWEVER, peopel who buy prebuilt like DELL and such, will most likely find themselves ina position where getting anythign else than AMD+ATI will be difficult and when they can it will come at a premium.
Since AMD/ATI will most likely(if they got any brain power) offer package deals to manufacturers who buy in bulk from them. Buy an AMD CPU and a ATI graphics card deal, and you get so and so many percentages off.
this will make AMD's even more lucrative for manufacturers/OEMs to buy and will help AMD icnrease their market share by a good deal.
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