I'd recently talked to friends about what AMD might do to compete with Intel's graphics offerings. Never did we realize that ATI might just be willing to be bought. Wow…
This could be great for the free desktop; it seems entirely possible that AMD will open all the ATI specs that it can and we'll finally get full-on open source drivers. Or it could be business as usual.
In any case, Nvidia seems pretty left-in-the-cold at this point. Maybe this will be the incentive they need to start opening their specs.
Interesting times. (B)