As has been rumoured for a few weeks, AMD has purchased ATI.
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Under the terms of the transaction, AMD will acquire all of the outstanding common shares of ATI for a combination of $4.2 billion in cash and 57 million shares of AMD common stock, based on the number of shares of ATI common stock outstanding on July 21, 2006.
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And as had also been knows, big price drops on CPUs.
I received the NCIX email on the weekend (
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And wow - 51.69% price drop brings the X2 5000+ within range. I've read the Intel's Core 2 Duo benchmarks seriously outperform AMD's current offerings, so I guess AMD had to do this to maintain market share.
What goes around comes around, I guess. Once again, Intel has the performance crown and AMD is making the low cost alternative.
Looks like it must be time to plan my next system.