Intel considers AMD and ATI merger likely

The word on the street here at Computex 2006 is that Intel considers the talks of the possible merger between AMD and ATI very likely, even inevitable, in the near future. From a trusted and reliable anonymous source, today we learned that Intel are talking behind closed doors about the real possibility of an AMD and ATI merger, with some seriousness, and discussing what it could mean for their future business and bottom line.

If you sit back and consider the facts for a minute, it all seems very logical. If the merger was to go ahead, it could affect ATI’s most direct competitor (nVidia) a lot - the merger would create a company who has the capacity to create good CPU’s, good chipsets and good GPU’s. By combining their resources, it opens things up for AMD and ATI to really take on Intel and nVidia in a big way and increase their market share in a range of different product segments.

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