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AMD to open up graphics specs

AMD to open up graphics specs

Posted Sep 5, 2007 15:53 UTC (Wed) by xav (guest, #18536)
In reply to: AMD to open up graphics specs by ewan
Parent article: AMD to open up graphics specs

Maybe, but open specs is all that was asked by the driver community since ages. And now, AMD gives specs *and* a minimal reference driver. They must be commended for that.

Of course, Intel's way is yet better. But look at the bright side: NVIDIA is now the only one to keep closed hardware, the status-quo between them and ATI is over and they'll probably have to do something about it one day.

All in all, very very good news.


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AMD to open up graphics specs

Posted Sep 5, 2007 20:28 UTC (Wed) by hitmark (guest, #34609) [Link]

also, as ati is a major player when it comes to laptop graphics, and dell specifically called for something like this, its win win for everyone imo.

hell, if amd plays its cards right, it may well be able to get dell to use their cpus and similar in the laptops rather then intel.

AMD to open up graphics specs

Posted Sep 5, 2007 22:22 UTC (Wed) by Zenith (subscriber, #24899) [Link]

This is actually a quite interesting take on the matter.

If things turn out this way, AMD have made quite a case for using their CPUs and GPUs, so let us hope Dell sees things the same way.

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