Originally posted by Mr. Silver:
I beg to differ, AMD has all of their eggs in one basket as well. Their CPU division is the bread-and-butter of the company. If AMD's CPUs die, then the company will die as well. Back to the main topic though, I still don't understand why so many people are thinking that the golden age of 3d accelerators are over. I agree that competition is a healthy thing, but ATi and Matrox have more than enough power to thwart nVidia. Matrox easily dominates the business market, while ATi can give the big N a run for it's money in the gaming end. Have some faith in ATi, they may be the underdogs, but I wouldn't count them out.

You are quite right. Matrox and ATI do have enough power to "thwart" Nvidia. But that is IF they're merged. At least that is what a smart CEO from ATI should do.

As for comments on this topic, it is a natural revolutionary process in a capitalistic society that more and more small firms merge together and form bigger and bigger firms. It has to be that way or else they will go out of business. If that happens, the business owners will become property-less workers. Now they wouldn't want that to happen do they? For those of you that don't like to talk about politics, this isn't politics, this is economics.

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[This message has been edited by SiNOMan (edited December 17, 2000).]