News: ATI aquires chip design company

[saaya]

Apache Design Solutions and ATI Technologies announced that the latter had expanded its world-wide adoption of Apache’s complete dynamic power integrity suite, including RedHawk-EV with PowerGate (low-power ramp-up analysis), NSpice-PI, and recently announced PsiWinder. In a multi-million dollar per year, multi-year agreement, ATI will use Apache’s products for dynamic power and timing sign-off, as well as package-IC interface analysis.
http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/video/display/20050613205649.html

maybe to help them with the r520 yields?

[d3birth]

maybe to help them with the r520 yields?

That would mean lower prices?
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[[XC] moddolicous]

Maybe lower prices, but more probably better clock for clock, lower power consumption, and maybe it will support more new features.

[Cooper]

If it will decrease the finance for R520 development it surely will decrease finall price of product. Also if this thing is so good then we`ll see some new products from ATI sooner then we expected.

[clayton]

RedHawk could help them fix anything that leaks I guess.