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July 25, 2006
The Apple Core: Will Apple dump ATI for NVIDIA?
AMD yesterday announced that they plan to acquire Canadian video chip maker ATI for US$5.4 billion. The deal needs to be approved by stockholders and regulatory agencies. Arch-rival Intel announced that they won't be renewing ATI's chipset bus license as a result of the deal.
The move leaves Apple in a bit of a quandary because ATI video subsystems currently power two of Apple's Intel-based Macs: the MacBook Pro and the iMac both ship with ATI Mobility Radeon X1600 GPUs. The Mac mini and MacBook use Intel GMA950 graphics.
Read the rest of the story on my ZDNet Blog: The Apple Core.
Posted by Jason D. O'Grady at July 25, 2006 8:00 AM
Category: The Apple Core
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