Yeah I've heard about this. The previous founder of ATI recently retired and so there was new managment... not suprised about this. I know some friends who know the founder of ATI, pretty cool.
I knew that AMD had proposed a deal, but I thought that the shareholders of ATi still had to agree on it (although I'm sure they'd say yes).
i know what your'e saying, AMD had a better relation ship w/ nviida, nForce... but ATI isn'tna bad company, so i have no clue where you get the gay-ass part from. At this time ATI has the better design.