AMD to Buy ATI

AMD to buy ATI for about $5.4 billion is an example of the flood of news reports this morning confirming rumors that Advanced Micro Devices is buying ATI Technologies. The About AMD & ATI Page on the ATI Website (thanks Mike Martinez) has a preliminary outline of where this will lead, and here's the announcement:
NEW YORK (Reuters) - Advanced Micro Devices Inc (NYSE:AMD - news), the No. 2 supplier of computer processors, said on Monday it would acquire graphics chip maker ATI Technologies Inc. for $5.4 billion in cash and stock to expand its product mix and grow market share as it battles Intel Corp. (Nasdaq:INTC - news).

Under terms of the deal, AMD will acquire all of the outstanding common shares of ATI (Nasdaq:ATYT - news) (Toronto:ATY.TO - news) for $4.2 billion in cash and 57 million shares of AMD common stock, based on the number of shares of ATI common stock outstanding on July 21.

AMD said it would pay $20.47 for each ATI share. That marks a 24 percent premium over ATI's closing stock price of $16.56 on Nasdaq on Friday. The stock added another 7 percent to $17.68 in after-hours trading amid media reports of the expected deal.

The consideration for each outstanding share of ATI comprises $16.40 in cash and 0.2229 shares of AMD common stock, the companies said.

AMD, the No. 2 supplier of computer processors, said it expects to finance the cash portion of the transaction with a combination of cash and new debt.

AMD has obtained a $2.5 billion term loan commitment from Morgan Stanley Senior Funding which, together with combined existing cash, cash equivalents, and short-term investment balances of about $3 billion, provides full funding for deal, it said.

ATI said it has agreed to a termination fee of $162 million. The deal is subject to the approval of ATI shareholders and regulators in the United States and Canada.
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All graphics will be integrated into the CPU, where it can be done better and faster than on a GPU

You're gonna hafta make a few arguments to back up that claim, 'cause as far as I know, it's just plain not true. The whole graphical computation biz is based on a certain architecture; underlying physics/graphics is done using matrices and linear algebraic computations. That kind of stuff is done in a massively paralel fashion. Your cpu works in a different way; the underlying layout for the circuits on the chips make the cpu/gpu 'incompatible'.

Not only that, but integrating gpu in the cpu does something terrible for yields; two different complex architectures in one package is error prone, and if either the cpu or the gpu have too many errors, the whole combination-package must be thrown away. And that's VERY expensive. It's one of the main reasons why second level cache is so low.

So keeping the gpu and the cpu seperate is quite important, and not just for these two reasons.
The gpu/cpu combo only makes sense if you're going the massively multithreaded route, with a massive network of parralel gpu/cpu's working in combinationb with each other....which brings up hardware/programming issues all of it's own.

So, I've done my homework (most of it at uni), now you show yours; I'm quite curious to hear your arguments, and that ain't sarcasm.

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