Quote Originally Posted by DilTech View Post
AMD bought ATi in 2006. October of 2006 was when the deal was finalized. The final official call of Juarez dx10 benchmark came out in june of 2007. The change to the benchmark took place but a few days before the release of the benchmark. This was over 6 months after AMD took control.

Yes, they still had the ATi name, but it was owned by AMD, and as such actions had to go through AMD to get the final OK.
I don't think AMD had to allow everything ATi and game developers did together. Especially since AMD hardly could have integrated ATi that much at that time.
It takes years, and I'm pretty sure it was ATi staff that managed the contact with game developers. If AMD would stomp in and switch personell or try to micromanage ATi at that point the entire operation of ATi would be stalled for a long time. At that point ATi was owned by AMD, but hardly integrated.