For the past couple of years, we’ve been dished out a nearly daily meal of doom predictions for AMD. Those predictions escalated with AMD’s acquisition of ATI. I read many of these articles in the beginning, hoping for a glimpse of some kind of inside information of what was really happening at AMD. I soon realized that most of these articles were being written by Intel and nVidia fanboys, who knew no more about AMD’s current situation than the rest of us, and were gleefully making unfounded predictions of AMD’s demise. I stopped reading them a long time ago.

AMD has truly had some problems in their CPU division. I don’t claim to know what the future holds for them, I hope they survive and do well, if for no other reason I feel that Intel should have some competition. AMD has built some awesome processors, and though the Phenom isn’t quite what many expected, I’m not prepared to write them off.

Their ATI division is a different story. The Radeon HD 3850 and HD 3870 were both excellent cards, and gave us a glimpse of where ATI was headed, smaller graphics processors with awesome capabilities, one GPU not only for multiple models of cards, but one for both mid-range and upper-range video cards.

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