War for Visual Computing: Why AMD Could Have the Best Chance

The past week has been rampant with discussion on the new war that is
brewing between NVIDIA and Intel but there was one big player left out of
the story: AMD. It would seem that both sides seem to have written this
competitor out but we think quite the opposite. Yes the company is having
financial difficulties that many have used as bait for a potential takeover
or buy out, but I am going to spend this time to discuss why I think both
Intel and NVIDIA are overlooking a still-competitive opponent which could
turn out to be a drastic mistake.

URL: http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=547

Quote: "Of the three companies in this debate today, Intel, AMD and NVIDIA,
only one is balanced in the vision that both NVIDIA and Intel supposedly see
for the industry. AMD has both a CPU and GPU that are competitive in
today's market; not leaders in any definitive way but right up there none
the less. Thanks to the acquisition of ATI by AMD nearly two years ago the
combined organization seems poised to capitalize on the shifting dynamics in
the designs of both processing dynamics. And much of what Intel and NVIDIA
are doing today is actually validating what AMD has done over the past 24
months."

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Ryan Shrout
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