AMD acquires ATI for $5.4 billion

AMD hasn't acquired anything yet. The entire deal hasn't even been approved by stockholders from either company or regulatory agencies in either Canada or the U.S..

For the sake of accuracy, AMD PLANS to acquire ATI.

I think this could prompt next gen MacBooks to have Nvidia GPU's.

Intel won't like Apple using ATI GPU's, and Apple isn't likely to switch to AMD processors. ATI will have a brief share of Apple and Microsoft, both will not like to piss off their partner- intel.

ATI has had it's license to make Intel motherboards revoked, as reported on the inquirer.

The only thing which would make Apple switch to AMD is K8L and a very, very good discount on AMD+ATI combo chips.

yay, Nvidia Cards for Macs!!!

More interesting, I think, is the question of whether the partnership between Apple and Intel over processors features any non-compete agreement that would prevent Apple from purchasing anything from AMD. The ATI standalone cards don't directly compete with Intel, but since integrated AMD/ATI offerings will, Otellini and the boys might not like it.