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AMD acquires ATI for $5.4 billion
AMD, the #2 CPU maker in the world, has announced a purchase of ATI, a leading graphics card manufacturer, for $5.4 billion. IMG has more details on the buyout and the business end of things, but we're more interested in finding out what exactly this means for the Mac market. ATI currently supplies the graphics hardware in a good portion of Apple's machines, including the MacBook Pro I'm typing this on and my wife's iMac, so here's hoping ATI makes enough money from working with Apple to keep AMD - an arch rival to Intel - happy. Stay tuned for more details as they develop.
Intel sounds
excited about their relationship with Apple, as Deborah Conrad, vice president and director of Team Apple at Intel,
spoke positively to a group of CNET editors yesterday about how things are going so far. Deborah was doubtful that an
Intel chip would be powering the iPod anytime soon, but she mentioned the company was enthusiastic about the potential
for their chips to show up in other future Apple gadgets. Thanks Deborah - I'm sure in the coming weeks the rumors
sites will crank out all sorts of fantastic nonsense from that statement.
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