[ale] AMD to Retire ATI Graphics Brand

[Jim Kinney]

They're not dumping the hardware (or engineers) just the name.

On Wed, Sep 1, 2010 at 9:37 AM, Ron Frazier
<atllinuxenthinfo at c3energy.com>wrote:

> Unbelievable.  I think this will be bad for people who like high end
> hardware.  I've been somewhat of an ATI / AMD fan of late.  I'll throw out
> the disclaimer that I cannot currently afford high end hardware.  However,
> I did build a pc last year and I chose an MSI motherboard that is CAPABLE
> of using high end components.  Right now, it's stocked with an AMD Athlon
> X2 dual core CPU and an cheap ATI 4xxx series graphics card.  I was hoping
> to upgrade later when I have the money to a Phenom 6 core CPU and 2-4
> crossfire linked ATI graphics cards.  (Still not sure I'd want to spend a
> grand on graphics cards, though.)  If this had been their policy before, it
> doesn't seem like I would have been able to get a mid-high end motherboard
> and minimal integrated graphics.  As usual, the geeks and engineers get
> dumped for the benefit of the mass market.
>
> Ron
>
> At 9/1/2010 12:17 PM +0000, you wrote:
> >AMD to Retire ATI Graphics Brand
> >
> http://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/amd-to-retire-ati-graphics-brand/?news=123
> >
> >http://preview.tinyurl.com/288fvsq
> >
> >keith
> >
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