[geeks] Sun to adopt newest Intel Xeon chips for upcoming servers (link)

[Sridhar Ayengar]

Geoffrey S. Mendelson wrote:
> Probably not. ATI is a top notch hardware developer, but they lack
> expertise in low power chips and comptency in sofware production.
> If AMD can help them lower power requirments of their chips,
> and assist them in getting their software production into gear, 
> everyone wins.

Indeed.  AMD's expertise in process can only help ATI.

> The big difference between ATI and NVidia currently is that NVidia has
> good support for other environments than Windows. Good documentation,
> top notch Linux driver development and they assist open source
> development effort.

I don't think Nvidia's support of OSS efforts have been up to snuff, 
personally.

> ATI's support of Linux is weak at best, many people would say sucks.
> Their documentation is poor, they try to avoid releasing as much data
> as possible.

Hopefully, AMD can "liberate" them from this habit.  AMD has a proven 
track record of supporting wide ranging OSS projects with documentation, 
tools and monies.

Peace...  Sridhar