Date: Wed, 06 Jun 2007 12:55:06 +0200 From: =?utf-8?Q?Dag-Erling_Sm=C3=B8rgrav?= <des@des.no> To: youshi10@u.washington.edu Cc: current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Intel C2D COREs not used equally in FreeBSD 7.0-CURRENT i386 Message-ID: <86lkexl5dh.fsf@dwp.des.no> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0706051526230.27212@hymn09.u.washington.edu> (youshi10@u.washington.edu's message of "Tue\, 5 Jun 2007 15\:26\:23 -0700 \(PDT\)") References: <Pine.LNX.4.43.0706051526230.27212@hymn09.u.washington.edu>
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youshi10@u.washington.edu writes: > On Tue, 5 Jun 2007 eculp@encontacto.net wrote: > > Quoting "Kenneth P. Stox" <ken@stox.org>: > > > AMD bought ATI, not NVidia. > > Thanks Kenneth, but now I am confused. Why would all the AMD64 > > laptops that I've been looking at have nvidia video? > Business contracts. HP probably gets ATI cheaper on bulk compared to > nVidia. The ATI / AMD merge happened in the past 5 months too, so > it's not going to affect purchasing for a while I think.. AMD bought ATI last fall, more than five months ago. The reason so many AMD-based laptops have nVidia GPUs is simply that nVidia is by far the largest supplier of AMD-compatible chipsets, and it makes sense to get your GPU from the same source (especially when it's integrated in the chipset). AMD don't make desktop or laptop chipsets themselves. ATI do, but don't have much of a market share. DES --=20 Dag-Erling Sm=C3=B8rgrav - des@des.no
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