In case you didn't know, AMD bought ATI, and in case you also didn't know, it was a full take over, not a merger, so the ATI name will soon be gone forever....

Is that a good thing, or just a change of name?

I'm not sure it was a good idea to get rid of sucha well known name.

And will they support old ATI products like video cards?

I would imagine, as with older OS's, and cards, that there may be an archive of drivers for the really old cards, but that support will eventually drop. It should be interesting to see what AMD does now that they virtually have a corner on part of the market. Comapatbility should be a breeze now, and maybe they can do what NVidia did with the drivers, and make them work for all the new/newer cards.

Aye this was rumoured a good few months ago.

You shouldn't really need updated drivers for the 'really old cards' anyway Robert, as you won't be playing the latest games on them, so that shouldn't be a problem.

Also, AMD has always had a growing corner of the market, which, although will be played down a bit with the release of Intel's Core Duo chips, it will still grow.

Compatibility has always been fine really between the latest cards and motherboards, and ATi infact have a group of people working on Catalyst drivers for all their new Graphics cards, releasing an update every month (IIRC), which fixes a lot of problems. You learn something new everyday ;)

Yes but what about the latest ATI cards, those will be good for some years still. Those are the ones I'm thinking about. Will they get new drivers updates? If not those that got them got screwed.

[ 08-08-2006, 10:04 AM: Message edited by: Luvian ]

Hey, just curious why you're pluggingAOL?

I thought I'd make a fake sig like Hivetyrant for a day, see how it feel.

Of course they will.

AMD isn't dismantleing ATI... just rebadging it's products. You won't have support issues like you would if they were buying ATI to get rid of a rival. Basically the only difference is that if you go out and buy a X800 card in a few months it'll be an "AMD X800" not an "ATI X800".