ATI and AMD

Intel has to start preparing for a stormy future, AMD managed to beat the sale numbers presented by Intel earlier this year and now AMD announced the merger with ATI or rather that they bought ATI. AMD has officially moved up from the harmless little company on the other side of the ocean to being a serious competetor to Intel. Intel's control over the PC market is dwindeling due to the loss of market share in the computer and gaming industry. Even the deal with apple can't save Intel from the wrath of the wallet.
Intel's prize politic has always been unfair to the single costumer who wants to upgrade or build their own system. This and the better benchmark results AMD CPU's get in gaming, MP3 decoding and of course on digital photography. Admittedly those better results are generally achieved on Windows and Linux systems and not Apple which does not offer an AMD based system.
But gamers have for the greater part (to my knowledge) chosen AMD CPU's for years and if it only was the prize that convinced them. AMD has announced that they intend to provide a good onboard graphics sollution in the future, so that people that do not want to spent 600$ for a good graphics card can just by a 300$ Mainboard. (the prize for the Mainboard is made up).