AMD-ATI

AMD processors have always provided better performance; especially related to memory. ATI has always been struggling to survive against Nvidia's continual superiority. If AMD and ATI were to team up, then both graphics and processing technologies could stand to benefit. Perhaps AMD could even begin creating system memory from the merging. The thought of an AMD processor applied to system memory, processing, and graphics is very attractive.

How could AMD stand to benefit from ATI's trade?

Solid-State Storage PCs

Finally, the quickly developing flash memory technology has caught of with hard drives. The mobile world will be Solid-State Storage's first target. In another five years the technology will be just as dominant as Hard-Disk Drives are today. With less moving parts and lower power consumption than previous technologies, solid-state also brings in another obvious advantage. Read and write times will be tripled at best. The only draw-back to this obvious advantage is the price-tag. The newly released UMPC from Samsung is now a little over double its original price with a 32 GB solid-sate storage disk.

How soon will that doubled price-tag become equal with the other storage solution?

Turion X2 64

AMD's newest development, the Turion processor; now that new technology can be milked for all it's worth by doubling up cores on a single chip. This development should bode well for AMD in the mobile computing area. Intel has always been able to stay one step ahead of AMD in this area, but not this time. Turion allows AMD's best technologies to converge into a sinle processor. A small sample of these technologies are 64-bit compatibility, low power consumption, dual-processors, L1 cache in capacities of up to 512 KB, and hyper-transport technology.

Once AMD unleashes Turions into the UMPC market how will Intel respond?

Quad-Crossfire

ATI, it seems, attempts to copy it's superior competitor (Nvidia) a second time. First, ATI fought Nvidia's SLI technology with Crossfire months after Nvidia released the technology to the public. You'd think that the low functionality yields would have kept them from pursuing the technology any further. Now, ATI releases Quad-Crossfire to rival Nvidia's Quad-SLI. Just as before, the development comes months later. Both technologies appear to show little progress and succeed in nothing but wasting the consumer's money.

Will ATI's copy attempts lead them to waste money on MORE frivolous endeavors?

ATI Establishes Foothold

A lead European graphics tech company was bought today. As you may have guessed ATI was the one to buy out the company assuming to gain popularity from the European nations. ATI can only gain from this transaction because of how little they spent to buy out the company. Nvidia assumedly has no need for European popularity, otherwise they would've bought out the European company. Nvidia is known around the world for their excellence in mobile display.

Will ATI continue buying out lesser companies to gain popularity?