Is ATI's Success Doomed?
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The graphics chipmaker is optimistic about the future, but competitors aren't standing still.
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THERE is never a right time to buy technology. Something cheaper, faster and better specified will be on the market before you have even got your product out of its box.
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Over the long term, one strategy has consistently outperformed. Shouldn't you try it?
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Advanced Micro Devices reported its fifth consecutive quarterly loss as it struggled to absorb the huge cost of its purchase of ATI Technologies, a graphics chip maker.
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The company still isn't profitable, but big gains may be on the horizon.
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The company has posted impressive growth, but the industry is struggling.
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ATI Technologies Inc. (NASDAQ:ATYT)(TSX:ATY), the global leader in PC graphics, has broadened its offerings for PC gamers and extended its performance lead with the introduction of a family of powerful new graphics processors.
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SAN JOSE, Calif. Â Advanced Micro Devices Inc. acknowledged Wednesday it overpaid in its $5.6 billion acquisition of graphics chip maker ATI Technologies Inc., adding to the deepening financial woes of the slumping semiconductor company.
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The acquisition by Advanced Micro Devices put ATI directly in competition with one of its major partners, Intel Corp., analysts say, which is the main reason ATI's market share dropped.
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(InfoWorld) - The former chief executive of ATI Technologies has resigned from Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) just nine months after the two companies combined in aÂ $5.4 billion merger. AMD said Tuesday that David Orton will resign as executive vice president after working through the end of this month. AMD had convinced Orton to remain with the company byÂ signing him to a $1.7 million contractÂ in October, shortly before completing the merger. As the president and CEO of ATI, Orton led efforts to compete with rival Nvidia in the building of high-end graphics boards for PCs, as well as cellphones, smartphones, and gaming consoles. By acquiring ATI, AMD hoped to become more competitive with Intel by creating aÂ single "Fusion" chipÂ that integrates its x86 microprocessor with ATI's graphics processor on a single piece of silicon. AMD wanted to retain Orton along with his ATI colleagues because of his ability to push ATI to success in the graphics, chip set, and consumer-electronics markets, said Dirk Meyer, AMD's president and chief operating officer, in a statement released Tuesday. However, AMD expects it will take until 2009 to complete the engineering necessary to bring the new Fusion chip to market. In the meantime, the chip vendor has been suffering from the effects of aÂ price warÂ that has made just a small dent in the profits of its much larger rival Intel. By contrast, AMD has watched its profits sink into the red, reportingÂ losses of $611 millionÂ and $574 million for its past two fiscal quarters. In a search for operating cash, AMD even decided to sell off a stake of the company,Â raising $2.2 billionÂ through the sale of convertible notes to institutional investors. That financial pressure may have been one factor contributing to Orton's departure. In a statement released Tuesday, Orton said he still had faith in the companies' merger strategy. "It is with mixed feelings that I am leaving AMD," Orton said. "I am very optimistic about AMD's future. I believe strongly in the strategies that brought AMD and ATI together and the talented employees of the 'new AMD' who are committed to winning in the market." In the wake of Orton's departure, AMD said that its CEO Hector Ruiz would now be the direct supervisor of Adrian Hartog, senior vice president and general manager for the consumer electronics group, and Rick Bergman, senior vice president and general manager for the graphics products group. Also this week, AMD renewed its determination to continue its price war with Intel, announcing Monday that it wasÂ cutting prices on its range of desktop PC chips, from the top-end Athlon 64 FX through the Athlon 64 X2 and Sempron families. In the longer term, AMD hopes to regain profitability with itsÂ "Barcelona" quad-core Opteron server chip. AMD plans to launch that processor in August to compete with Intel's dual-core "Woodcrest" and quad-core "Clovertown" Xeon processors launched last year, and quad-core "Harpertown" server chip due out in the fourth quarter of 2007. AMD may provide more details on Orton's departure and its new strategies when the vendor reports second-quarter fiscal 2007 earnings on July 19. Â
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It reads like a VIP list of failures â-ewlett-Packard, Toshiba, Intel, and Philips. Each of these technology powerhouses tried to conquer a promising technology
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IBM lost the 1980s. But the big payoff may be still to come.
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This morning, AMD announced its desktop-level integrated chipset combining its designs for systems and peripheral bus controllers with ATI's graphics logic, all in one package. AMD already has the lead in components for value-priced systems, and ATI's logic may help it maintain that lead. But as Intel has proven over the years, that effort might not always bear fruit.
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Will investors and consumers stay satisfied?
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Take-Two posts a market-beating loss -- but is it out of the danger zone yet?
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Review Just as ATI's X800 XT PE ships, along comes the next board