AMD has completed its purchase of ATI. It spent $4.3bn in cash and 58m AMD shares on the graphics chip company, taking on $2.5bn in debt to help pay for it all. Farewell, the ATI, retained only as a product brand.

And with acquisition comes integration. AMD said it plans to announce a number of platforms next year that will combine its procesor technology with ATI's GPU designs, as Intel Centrino-like platforms. Beyond that, in the 2008/2009 timeframe will come Fusion: the integration of GPU into CPU. It's a logical move: AMD has already brought key North Bridge chip components on board the CPU, and now it's the turn of the integrated graphics core.

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