AMD may not heart ATI after all

When you spread faithfully report as many rumors as we do, you're bound to be off the mark more often than not, and here it turns out that the AMD / ATI merger gossip we recently passed along is starting to look decidedly bogus. Having no "insiders" at either company ourselves, we're resigned to waiting for such publications as The Inquirer to massage their own connections, and now the Inq is reporting that sources from both camps have denied that acquisition talks are even occurring, much less that any sort of purchase is imminent. Since there was no hard evidence to support this rumor in the first place, other than some supposedly-telling supply chain checks done by RBC analyst Apjit Walia, you'll probably agree that this new information doesn't come as much of a shock. Still, seeing how ATI's steadily declining stock price took a slight upturn right after this story went public, it seems that not everyone took our recommendation to remain calm during these times of wild speculation.

[Paul @ Jun 7th 2006 11:53PM]

Comments are back, thank God!
Well, Im a little saddened by the lack of a merger... I could only dream of the machines that could create...

[Cypheros @ Jun 8th 2006 12:06AM]

I dunno. Not a big ATI fan, but it would have been really nice to see what wonders AMD could have wrought in the GPU universe...

[diulei @ Jun 8th 2006 12:29AM]

Yes, I would have loved to see what an AMD/ATI merge or something like it (e.g. Intel/nVidia) could have produced.

[Intrepid @ Jun 8th 2006 1:09AM]

Anyone remember the nAMD rumors from years back? They were quite untrue, and so is this...
HOWEVER, I would like to see those two slightly behind companies use each other to catch up to NV and Intel.

[Ken Addison @ Jun 8th 2006 1:38AM]

hmm, the merger would have been natural as far as I see it. Over the years I have noticed that AMD people use ATI mostly and intel people use nvidia for the most part, with some exceptions of course.

[Sam @ Jun 8th 2006 2:27AM]

Ken:
Really? I've noticed the opposite myself, especially with Intel chipsets not supporting SLi and there being at least one Intel board with an ATI chipset (The D101GGCL).

[jp @ Jun 8th 2006 4:32AM]

Yes of course AMD people use Nvidia - remember of course that for a long time the nForce chipset was an AMD exclusive.

[Michael @ Jun 8th 2006 2:09PM]

"HOWEVER, I would like to see those two slightly behind companies use each other to catch up to NV and Intel."

Nice troll...