@Linux Geek
Your mis informed if you truely beleive that AMD isn't the correct branding. If AMD allowed ATI branding to be used, then they would definately loose sales. ATI sales have gone up simply because the AMD tag.
Now someone needs to read up on the history in sales and usage for ATI brandings. ATI = Great Hardware/Horrible driver support and this is true. This has been true sense Radeon 9800XT. Sure ATI has there ups and downs like anything else, but the true is told by whats in use. ATI steals teh market on a new release. Why, you might ask? BEcuase they release more product, at cheaper prices! Of course the sales are going to spike. NOw look back again a few months later, statistics will change and sway more to nVidia. This event doesn't even always happen on a release date for a nVidia product either most the time, which suggests that people are removing there ATI cards and Buying something else to use. For this reason ATI has far less Equity then AMD
AMD CPu's Hmm, they loose in numbers because of the OEM market, look to the custom build specifically and you willl see that the AMD CPU dominates, even if it is a tad slower on teh bigger pictures. AMD CPU will usually always dominate in a gaming benchmark, and if it doesn't then it is dam close to Intel. Becuase of the Price being a 3rd less on release, AMD has more sales in a very specific market of gaming and multimedia. When compared to office tasks, yeah AMD sucks. With the presentation of this artical and its between the lines purpose of gaming, AMD is the better branding to use becuase well the said reason. Most of you need to read up for real. Intel is about 6 years younger then AMD, and AMD lives on without hype and adertising, always has!!
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