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>     Anyone else enjoy the irony of that statement?  LOL

> > > Guys please remove "alt.games.operation-flashpoint" from the headers.
> > We're
> > > not interested in the "war of the computer geeks" over here.

> >     Anyone else enjoy the irony of that statement?  LOL

> Not until you mentioned it, but yeah that is ironic.  This is more like...
> "war of the misinformation speading geeks".

> >     Anyone else enjoy the irony of that statement?  LOL

> > Have you considered nForce?

> Possible choice but they have integrated graphics so the cost is higher.

> -Larry

> > goodness me
> > what is happening to the world ??

> > from totally unreliable sources:=

> > "...........MAKE OF THIS AS YOU WILL, but we heard from
> > normally highly reliable sources at Computex last week
> > that as recently as this time last year Via was
> > seriously considering buying AMD.
> > That would have been a masterstroke for Via CEO Wen Chi
> > Chen if he could have pulled off the plan.

> > Formidable obstacles -- no doubt in the shape of Jerry
> > Sanders III as well as the sums of money that would
> > probably have been involved -- might well have
> > convinced Via that the time for such an acquisition was
> > not ripe.

> > And it would also have pitched Via firmly against
> > Intel, and catapulted it firmly into the worldwide CPU
> > market.

> > Although Via is a force to be reckoned with in the
> > industry, the US seems to have something of a blind
> > spot about the company, which is owned by mega
> > Taiwanese corporation Formosa Plastics.

> > Via has already used the acquisition vehicle to
> > increase its presence in the marketplace, with
> > multi-million dollar deals giving it a number of US
> > firms and divisions including Centaur, Cyrix, a chunk
> > of S3, a bit of LSI Logic and goodness knows what else.

> > Such a bold stroke would have galvanised the industry.

> > Three years ago, at an Intel Developer Forum, chief
> > technology officer Pat Gelsinger told us that it was
> > rightly paranoid about Via - more paranoid in fact than
> > it was about AMD, widely perceived as its main
> > competition.

> > At the INQUIRER, we also know that Via was seriously
> > interested in acquiring Transmeta - so much so, in
> > fact - that the latter company protected itself with a
> > so-called "poison pill" piece of US regulatory paper.

> > Other firms that we know have also been interested in
> > Transmeta include its friend Nvidia, which wants to
> > give itself leverage against future Microsoft
> > negotiations.

>     Well, someone from the Operation Flashpoint newsgroup ... a 3D war
> simulation computer game ... complained about having to read about the
"war
> of the computer geeks."  I Hate explaining humour.  ;-)

> > > > Guys please remove "alt.games.operation-flashpoint" from the
headers.
> > > We're
> > > > not interested in the "war of the computer geeks" over here.

> > >     Anyone else enjoy the irony of that statement?  LOL

> Yawn, yawn, yawn. *** you. You are dumb. I don't care if you
> work for AMD, you are still full of shit.
> Die punk ass. And by the way, today is my first day of posting
> in here, so *** you and your rude ass.

> > > AMD's intel compatible chipsets are in fact designed and fabricated by
> VIA
> > > anyhow.
> > > This is a known and is no secret.

> > It's completely untrue. AMD designs and manufactures their chipsets on
> their
> > own, and in their own fabs too I believe. VIA doesn't even HAVE any
> > manufacturing capability! They're a fabless design studio who appoints
> > companies such as TMSC to actually produce their chips.

> > Shows how much YOU know, LOL!

> > >You constantly find the same exact errors
> > > and issues
> > > in both chips at the same time.

> > Ehhh... No, this is bullshit like most everything else you post.

> > > It suprises me not at all when AMD is going to buy VIA because VIA is
> > pretty
> > > much owned
> > > by VIA already

> > Makes sense. VIA owns VIA... Brainfart, anyone?

> > > as VIA has not sold on their own since AMD employed them to
> > > pump out chipsets
> > > compatible with their AMD CPU's.

> > Not sure exactly what you're trying to say here. VIA sells quite a lot
of
> > Intel-compatible chipsets too.

> > > On the other
> > > hand? Why? AMD has a huge
> > > fab her in Austin.

> > It makes flash memory these days, not CPUs.

> > AMDs CPUs are made in the Dresden megafab in Germany, or in the case of
> the
> > Duron (which was produced in Austin up until recently) by some Taiwanese
> > company that I can't remember the name of.

>     Anyone else enjoy the irony of that statement?  LOL