Garrett D'Amore wrote:
> Likewise, ATI has some parts that are supported, and now their parent
> company is AMD. If I had a choice, I'd vote with my dollar and not buy
> any more AMD platforms, since ATI has actually become *more* closed than
> they were before AMD bought them. (If anyone from AMD is around to see
> this, feel free to push this up the food chain!)
AMD has started turning this around very recently, so I think they've
gotten it pushed up their food chain. (It was starting to hit them
doubly hard, since increasingly ATI graphics were coming with AMD computers,
as Intel partners like Apple switched to either nvidia or intel graphics,
so losing a sale cost them twice, and given their announced plans to merge
CPU & GPU into a single chip, would have cost them an open platform there,
which would really hurt.)
The few specs they've released so far (one each of the R500 & R600 series)
have been limited to 2-D parts only, but have been openly published, with
no NDA at all.
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-Alan Coopersmith- alan.coopersmith at sun.com
Sun Microsystems, Inc. - X Window System Engineering
