AMD To Be Taken Over By IBM
Next year, one of my favorite hardware manufacturers should celebrate its 40th year of existence. Unfortunately, the latest evolutions in the industry and recent rumors make me doubt a little that they will get to have any party in 2009. If you didn't guess it by now, I am talking about Advanced Micro Devices, usually known simply as AMD.
Some analysts started to say that AMD and IBM's microelectronics division could change their current relationship to "a more formal" one, and they may even take things further, to a merger. Other disagree, and I tend to agree with them. Why?
Well, a merger between IBM and AMD would help them fight Intel better, and IBM would have a serios reason to merge with AMD, despite the fact this may be against their strategy in the last years. Let's remember that Apple dropped the PowerPC architecture for Intel's Core Duo processors, leaving IBM staring at the sun...
On the other hand, while AMD's processors may not be able to fight Intel, at least for the moment, latest graphics cards from ATI look pretty good, and since recent releases are boiling-hot, we need to wait for things to coll down a bit to draw conclusions...
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