The Joy of Speculation: Will ATI and AMD get Married? Part 2, The Future of GPU’s and PC Games.

Note: this is continued from my last article (The Joy of Speculation: Will ATI and AMD get Married? Part 1, The History of GPU’s and PC Games.) and to me, it wasn't really enough for a new article, but not relative to the old article.

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The Joy of Speculation: Will ATI and AMD get Married? Part 1, The History of GPU’s and PC Games.

I have long waited for the day when GPU’s will be made by the CPU giants. The power and engineering behind the GPU manufactures, while impressive, has nothing compared to the CPU behemoths (Intel and AMD, and to some extent, IBM).

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Wii Graphics Willl Look Better Than at E3

ATI have said the graphics seen for the Wii at E3 were only the tip of the iceberg and that they would look better than Gamecube graphics. This matches with what Nintedo have said about the hardware that was present had not been finalised.

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Reports say AMD-ATI merger in the works

Is AMD eyeing ATI for an acquisition? That's the latest rumor on Wall Street. Industry analyst Apjit Walia of RBC Capital Markets is predicting a merger or acquisition in the not-too-distant future, saying that ATI is ripe for the picking.

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ATI eyes audio acceleration on the GPU

X-bit is reporting that ATI has plans to get developers running audio code on the Radeon X1300 GPU. ATI is releasing a new audio processing software developer's kit (SDK), and they demoed a basic equalizer application for it at a recent London event.

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Matrox TripleHead2Go

Matrox was the first company to bring triple-head display support to the mainstream PC with their Parhelia graphics card in 2002.

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AMD-ATI Merger Looks Likely

Advanced Micro Devices may be looking to buy graphics company ATI Technologies, a move that would benefit the overall graphics industry, according to RBC Capital Markets.

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Apple underclocking MacBook Pro graphics cards

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MacBook Pro Graphics Card Underclocked?

Since the release of Bootcamp by Apple, many people have reported games such as Blizzard's World of Warcraft running faster on Windows than on OSX.

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Should Linux use proprietary software from Nvidia and ATI ?

Efforts to bring glitzy new graphics to Linux are fueling an old conflict: Does proprietary software belong in open-source Linux?

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$1,000 Video Card? Introducing the Geforce 7900GX2

While more expensive video cards exist on the market, they are not targetted towards gamers. This new Geforce card is. So how many gamers would actually plunk down a grand for video card? That remains to be seen.

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Hostility between ATi and NVIDIA staff starts to become physical

Geek Fight!!

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Analysts: PlayStation 3 to be late, expensive

I'm not much of a gamer, but the PS3 sounds like it's going to be a pretty cool home theatre component, with a price tag to match...($800).

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ATI Makes False Claims on HDCP Support

This looks like a real can of worms for ATI.

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The Great HDCP Fiasco

You want to know a secret? None of the current ATI or NVIDIA graphics cards will support the full capabilities of Windows Vista.

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Radeon equivalent to Xbox 360 over $500 - Xbox 360 Fanboy

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So you got vista, and want to play 3D games?

I've been playing with Microsoft's newest Vista build (5270) and the first thing I wanted to see was how the compatibility with games was with it.

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ATI Radeon X1900 Hardware Review

The Radeon X1800 XT was generally faster than the GeForce 7800 GTX--until Nvidia launched a clocked-up 512MB version. With a stunning increase in pixel processing power, the X1900 cards represent ATI's dramatic response.

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Why vendors refuse to write Open Source drivers

A writeup on why some hardware vendors, namely ATI and NVIDIA, only release binary, proprietary, and sometimes encrypted drivers for supported operating systems.

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