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from: JU
date: 2006-07-26 13:46:28
subject: Re: [OS2HW] Top News Story of the Day - AMD to buy ATI

Hi Steve!

Steve Wendt wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Jul 2006, JU wrote:
> 
>> I still think this deal is very risky for AMD despite the fact that they now
>> have AGAIN the possibility to create chipsets for their own
hardware and might
>> create a new system on a chip (all in one solution like the
MediaGX Processor
>> from Cyrix several years ago - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/MediaGX).
> 
> AMD has owned the MediaGX for a number of years now (it's called the AMD 
> Geode, but it hasn't really changed).

I know but as you also say they haven't changed the design.

There is the Geode NX based on the AthlonXP Thoroughbred core but this one
doesn't have on-chip VGA as the original MediaGX and the other Geode (LX, GX,
GX2) processors.

Juergen


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