I just found this funny. ATI Acquires XGI.

[Golgatha]

http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=9373

Post#4 copied for your pleasure.

Man, ATI sure loves to copy NVIDIA. NVIDIA comes out with a driver
with a marketing name, Detonator, so ATI comes out with Catalyst.
NVIDIA comes out with SLI so ATI comes out with Crossfire. NVIDIA
comes out with Purevideo so ATI comes out with Avivo. NVIDIA comes
out with Turbocache so ATI comes out with HyperMemory. NVIDIA comes
out with motherboard chipset so ATI decides it to should enter the
motherboard chipset market. NVIDIA signs a deal with Microsoft for
a gaming console, then delay their next gen product by several
months. ATI signs a deal with Microsoft for a gaming console, then
delay their next gen product by several months. And finally, NVIDIA
decides they need to buy a Chinese company with a three letter name,
ULI, so ATI says "Why don't we also buy a Chinese company with
a three letter name", so they buy XGI.

 

[crazydingo]

Its funny but the poor guy didnt know that ATI tried to aquire XGI back in 04 and it didnt work out then.

 

[beggerking]

lol !:laugh:

 

[Wreckage]

Originally posted by: Golgatha
http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=9373

Post#4 copied for your pleasure.

Man, ATI sure loves to copy NVIDIA. NVIDIA comes out with a driver
with a marketing name, Detonator, so ATI comes out with Catalyst.
NVIDIA comes out with SLI so ATI comes out with Crossfire. NVIDIA
comes out with Purevideo so ATI comes out with Avivo. NVIDIA comes
out with Turbocache so ATI comes out with HyperMemory. NVIDIA comes
out with motherboard chipset so ATI decides it to should enter the
motherboard chipset market. NVIDIA signs a deal with Microsoft for
a gaming console, then delay their next gen product by several
months. ATI signs a deal with Microsoft for a gaming console, then
delay their next gen product by several months. And finally, NVIDIA
decides they need to buy a Chinese company with a three letter name,
ULI, so ATI says "Why don't we also buy a Chinese company with
a three letter name", so they buy XGI.

NVIDIA supports SM3.0 then ATI decides to support it, NVIDIA supports HDR and then ATI later supports it, etc., etc.

So does this mean we will see an ATI Radeon X1600XT-SE Volari V8?

 

[Schadenfroh]

Amusing

 

[SpeedZealot369]

lol, follow the leader

 

[Steelski]

WOOOOOOOOOOP Your all a bunch of really UGLY TOLLS!!!!!!!
FACT.

 

[Creig]

Originally posted by: Steelski
WOOOOOOOOOOP Your all a bunch of really UGLY TOLLS!!!!!!!
FACT.

They're all a bunch of fixed charges for passage across a bridge?

 

[Acanthus]

Originally posted by: Creig

Originally posted by: Steelski
WOOOOOOOOOOP Your all a bunch of really UGLY TOLLS!!!!!!!
FACT.

They're all a bunch of fixed charges for passage across a bridge?

I was so going to post that :laugh:

 

[whitewarrior11]

Hahaha lol, ugly tolls. In fact, he's right; all tolls are ugly but I guess he was meaning "trolls"...or something else? Dolls? Rolls? Anyway..

 

[imported_Grave]

funny statement

 

[Steelski]

what else could one say in the face of all that FUD.
ATI took over XGI and the thread is not even about that. All some people could post was ojadvojbasdvihbasfijhbaqsfdjhbiascjibascfbjsadbijhsdbhkscbh (troll fingers are too fat to type with!!!!).

 

[ForumMaster]

kind of like vista: it has been described as a Mac OS X skin for windows xp
or like intel. AMD offers 64bit native CPU's? we must too. AMD is doing better then us? we must make illegal agreements with Skype to tether our customers in.
I hate WinTel! an ATI sucks as well. nVidia's GPU's are better, cheaper, and don't have crappy crossfire!
nVidia and AMD FTW!

 

[Golgatha]

Originally posted by: Wreckage

Originally posted by: Golgatha
http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=9373

Post#4 copied for your pleasure.

Man, ATI sure loves to copy NVIDIA. NVIDIA comes out with a driver
with a marketing name, Detonator, so ATI comes out with Catalyst.
NVIDIA comes out with SLI so ATI comes out with Crossfire. NVIDIA
comes out with Purevideo so ATI comes out with Avivo. NVIDIA comes
out with Turbocache so ATI comes out with HyperMemory. NVIDIA comes
out with motherboard chipset so ATI decides it to should enter the
motherboard chipset market. NVIDIA signs a deal with Microsoft for
a gaming console, then delay their next gen product by several
months. ATI signs a deal with Microsoft for a gaming console, then
delay their next gen product by several months. And finally, NVIDIA
decides they need to buy a Chinese company with a three letter name,
ULI, so ATI says "Why don't we also buy a Chinese company with
a three letter name", so they buy XGI.

NVIDIA supports SM3.0 then ATI decides to support it, NVIDIA supports HDR and then ATI later supports it, etc., etc.

So does this mean we will see an ATI Radeon X1600XT-SE Volari V8?

I have no love for either camp, but ATI supports HDR with AA...nVidia I'm sure will support it someday. nVidia decides dual slot coolers are ok, and then ATI supports it.

 

[ronnn]

This is more of the same bad news. Soon there will be 2 companies Nvidia/amd/linux versus Ati/intel/microsoft.

 

[Frostwake]

Man, ATI sure loves to copy NVIDIA. NVIDIA comes out with a driver
with a marketing name, Detonator, so ATI comes out with Catalyst.
NVIDIA comes out with SLI so ATI comes out with Crossfire. NVIDIA
comes out with Purevideo so ATI comes out with Avivo. NVIDIA comes
out with Turbocache so ATI comes out with HyperMemory. NVIDIA comes
out with motherboard chipset so ATI decides it to should enter the
motherboard chipset market. NVIDIA signs a deal with Microsoft for
a gaming console, then delay their next gen product by several
months. ATI signs a deal with Microsoft for a gaming console, then
delay their next gen product by several months. And finally, NVIDIA
decides they need to buy a Chinese company with a three letter name,
ULI, so ATI says "Why don't we also buy a Chinese company with
a three letter name", so they buy XGI.

Funny, but the same could be said for Nvidia following ati in alot of other things (dont ask me to name them but each company always has something the other doesnt, and thats what makes people buy different products)

 

[Steelski]

Originally posted by: ronnn
This is more of the same bad news. Soon there will be 2 companies Nvidia/amd/linux versus Ati/intel/microsoft.

I dont find this bad news at all. I dout XGI would have ever really been a big player. as long as there are two competing companies then we should all be happy. The only really annoying news was that Nvidia bought ULi first. that company is full of briliant engeneers. I hate it when big companies buy big companies to eliminate them and not really integrate them, lest hope Nvidia does not do that. Xgi being a small company is a very interesting buy.

 

[DeathReborn]

Originally posted by: Steelski
what else could one say in the face of all that FUD.
ATI took over XGI and the thread is not even about that. All some people could post was ojadvojbasdvihbasfijhbaqsfdjhbiascjibascfbjsadbijhsdbhkscbh (troll fingers are too fat to type with!!!!).

wow, look at the whiney beatch go...



OT: amusing thread, shame some people can't have fun...

 

[Peter]

Reading skills, guys.

ATI didn't buy XGI, they bought XGI's Chinese operation. This isn't where the graphics chips are being made, it's just a foot in the door for ATI in China.

ATI would have a much harder time to convince SiS they don't need graphics engines at all ...

 

[akugami]

It's funny, the guy didn't know that ATI was in the console video game GPU business before nVidia. The R100 (Radeon 7200) was the first to fully implement the DX7 bump mapping features and nVidia followed suite. The Mobility Radeon 9000 was the first 4 pipeline notebook GPU and nVidia followed suite. ATI was the first to have fully programmable DX8 pixel and vertex shaders and nVidia followed suite. ATI was the first to implement some forms of video acceleration (especially HD video such as H.264) and nVidia followed suite. ATI was the first to fully support DX9 and 8x AGP with nVidia following suite. ATI was the first to implement 90nm process in their top of the line GPU's with nVidia following suite. ATI was the first to implement a dual card GPU solution that did not require absolute matching video cards (brand, bios, model) with nVidia following suite.

Although I'm probably not accurate on all my "firsts" for ATI my point in all this is to point out that ATI does some things first, nVidia does others first. If a feature is successful, both companies will implement it eventually. Both companies put out good products. Let's just choose whichever fits us best and leave the pissing contest at the door.

 

[kmmatney]

Not that I'm an ATI fanboi, since I have both makes, but:

* Didn't ATI make the GPU for the gamecube before NVidia did the GPU for the XBox?

* Didn't ATI have "SLI" before NVidia with the Rade3D Maxx? It was not a very good video card, but it did have 2 GPUs.

I'm really not sure what ATI will gain with the XGI acquisition, though.

 

[Steve]

Originally posted by: kmmatney
Not that I'm an ATI fanboi, since I have both makes, but:

* Didn't ATI make the GPU for the gamecube before NVidia did the GPU for the XBox?

* Didn't ATI have "SLI" before NVidia with the Rade3D Maxx? It was not a very good video card, but it did have 2 GPUs.

I'm really not sure what ATI will gain with the XGI acquisition, though.

Don't know about the consoles, but I do know that 3Dfx's Voodoo cards could do SLI, don't know if that was prior to the Rage3D Maxx though.

 

[JohnAn2112]

Originally posted by: akugami
Both companies put out good products. Let's just choose whichever fits us best and leave the pissing contest at the door.

QFT! :thumbsup:

 

[kmmatney]

Originally posted by: sm8000

Originally posted by: kmmatney
Not that I'm an ATI fanboi, since I have both makes, but:

* Didn't ATI make the GPU for the gamecube before NVidia did the GPU for the XBox?

* Didn't ATI have "SLI" before NVidia with the Rade3D Maxx? It was not a very good video card, but it did have 2 GPUs.

I'm really not sure what ATI will gain with the XGI acquisition, though.

Don't know about the consoles, but I do know that 3Dfx's Voodoo cards could do SLI, don't know if that was prior to the Rage3D Maxx though.

3dfx definately had SLI before anybody else. The Rage3D Maxx was too little too late for ATI.

 

[Wreckage]

Originally posted by: akugami
ATI was the first to implement some forms of video acceleration (especially HD video such as H.264)

I hope you are not talking about AVIVO as it came out way after Purevideo and Purevideo had HD support for Quicktime and WMV9 prior to AVIVO coming out.

ATI was the first to implement 90nm process in their top of the line GPU's

Maybe, but NVIDIA was the first to release a 90nm GPU so I would still call ATI at second.

ATI was the first to implement a dual card GPU solution that did not require absolute matching video cards (brand, bios, model)

Actually thanks to Crossfire's delay, NVIDIA supported unmatched cards in a driver release prior to ATI having it. Second again. Also note that you still needed to find a Mastercard, while any 2 NVIDIA cards of type would work.

I'm sure I could find more holes in those theories just as the original poster had some, but the orginal post was meant more for humor than a flame war.