*Source: Digit-Life (
http://www.digit-life.com/articles2/...3-page1.html)*
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Almost two years have passed since ATI lost its image of the leading GPU manufacturer. Then the company started to lose the market and to experience financial problems. It all resulted in a merger with AMD, almost all top managers of the former ATI Technologies were fired from AMD.
That's natural and not natural at the same time. What a shame! The trademark is lost because of talentless management of the former ATI. Yes, the problems started with the launch of the X1xxx family in October 2005. While Mid-End solutions were quite acceptable (still, there has been a shortage of these cards in the market), top products were plain weak. But the cards got very hot during operation and suffered from other problems. NVIDIA easily launched overclocked modifications of its Hi-End cards to counter ATI products that had been designed with so many difficulties. The age of ATI came to an inglorious end, and nervous reactions of ATI Russia to any criticism about RADEON X1xxx were a solid proof of that fact. But if they had known how much time was left for their office to remain independent... It's history now.
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