Even though I knew that it was happening for about a week, on Monday morning I got bombarded (not literally) by messages about AMD's acquisition of ATi. Some of my friends were curious to know what would happen and if Intel could put an offer out to nVidia. One of the reasons being a article that I read last year (which I conveniently cannot find now). The article stated that a lot of people would be shocked to know that Intel held the majority of the market share for graphics processors. This is only due to the fact that they have an Integrated Graphics Processor (IGP) solution; they weren't even close to the most powerful Graphics Processing Units (GPU) out there.

What is interesting, however, is what AMD plans for the future with this acquisition. There are doubts that the CPU/GPU integration would achieve a higher performance now that the high end graphics cards all run with GDDR3 whereas the processors are still running on DDR2. Not to mention that GDDR4 is just around the curve.

Though, nothing beats nVidia's comment about the acquisition which seemed to me a slap on the face to ATi.

Today's news about the acquisition of ATI by AMD is a positive development for NVIDIA. We are now the only graphics processor and core logic company that supports both Intel and AMD processors.

Must have been a heck of a deal for the GPU king's manufacturer. Of course, the crown keeps changing heads and we know that GeForce 8 series is not that far away.