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Since most advances in OS's and CPU's from 8 to 16 then 32 bit were driven primarily by memory address requirements and instruction sets, when will 64 bit computing and graphics be the clear new standard? And, what will act as the compelling force to drive the change?

Is there still room for significant improvements especially in graphics and gaming performance left in the 32 bit format?

AMD has made a lot of improvements to the CPU industry as a whole: they were essentially the savior back in the Pentium 4 days, and Intel is moving towards the replacement of the antiquated front side bus which AMD has been heralding. However, AMD's made quite a few missteps along the way, for example the botched Phenom launch. If you could go back and change one thing (realistically of course) to make AMD more successful in today's market, whether in your department of marketing or even pricing and development, since the development of the Athlon 64, what would you have done?

Is ATI Radeon 4870 really a high end card to compete against other Video Card such as NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280??

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 vs.ATI Radeon 4870

the GTX beats the 4870 in memory bandwidth because of the 512bit memory
interface?the 4870 has the memory running at 3870MHz stock! damn thats
definably going to be running right with my processor!

yeah the price is a big factor in which one flourish and which one Fails ftw!
especially that we are in a recession right now, who's going to fork over 600+ dollars?
Not that many people I would say.

I would probally just wait for the 4870x2 to come out, guessing it would sell for around
500-550 for it and would outperform the GTX280.
Just my speculation

Looking ahead to Fusion coming out, do you expect the performance of both the CPU and GPU to blow away Nvidia's mid-range cards.. while finally kicking Intel out of the market?

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Many gamers do not enjoy buying a new video card every generation of cards. Do you think a program similar to EVGA's step-up to a new video card is going to be in the works?

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Do you feel as if putting out the ATI Radeon 4850 for such a low price, while offering insane performance on it, is the new look of ATI? Should we expect more of these bargains, and will Fusion be just as excitingly inexpensive?

The naming of the AMD CPUs are quite odd, I.e. Athlon, Phenom, Sempron...etc... Are these names somehow related or do you just name them like that because they sound cool?

What improvements does AMD plan to do in terms of platform (processor, video card, and motherboard chipset)? Specifically, can expect more support similar to what Nvidia has done with HybridPower Technology? It would be a great benefit to the consumer and environment if Hybrid Crossfire would allow a high-end dedicated GPU to shut down and let an integrated solution take over to lower power consumption. Is AMD Fusion going to allow such a thing? What market(s) is Fusion aimed towards? Can it offer any type of benefits (like power savings in Hybrid Crossfire) to the enthusiasts? What can we expect from Bulldozer? How different is it from AMD's current generation of processors?

With the release of Vista, many XP users couldn't upgrade their computers to the new OS because of hardware incompatibilities. Even hardware that some users obtained a few months before Vista's release didn't work right with Vista.
With Windows 7 on the way, here is my question:

What is AMD doing to "future-proof" their products?

Do you use any type of desktop customization in your own PCs/laptops, if you do please specify and what do you think the future of desktop customization will be like?

My question is simple: Why can't AMD and NV work together for once, and help further improve the PC gaming market? To be more specific. I understand that there are a lot of pride and money going around that prevents partnership, and to be honest, as the consumer we prefer it that way. Since competition (hopefully no shadyness associated) is a good thing. However, I do think there are things that everyone (consumer, AMD, NV) could benefit if AMD and NV agreed with each other. Things like programmable API, or Physics on GPU API. (just look at the whole HD format war, NO ONE benefited from it) Lol, actually I don't think the above is really a question, rather a suggestion. So here is my real question I guess: Can you guys shed some light on driver optimization? What sort of things are being done to magically improve the performance of a game? I'd like to think that the only things that are done are things like better data distribution through analysis of data flow on the gfx for a given game. Or through the idenfication of bottlenecks in the render path of a game and thus finding ways to lessen its impact. However, I can't help but think that there are some optimizations that are more in the "corner cutting" nature. I mean human vision is far from perfect. So I actually don't mind most of these "corner cutting" esp. if they are done properly. However, I am curious to get an idea of how much of what kind of optimizations are being done at each driver release. thanks

How can hardware and software companies work together more closely in order to improve the experience for the average gamer?

I now that touch screens are here, I just wanted to know if we going to have more deep technology than touch screens? And will ATI have to do anything with this changes?

Sorry *Know*

is the best graphics card based on the amount of ram it has or is that determined by other features of it.

I'm very happy that now i have a chanse to ask developers of my favorit hardware brands, one question on that i cant find an answer for a long time. I want to ask about 64 bit calculations. All AMD processors now is 64 bit. i have 2 computers with AMD processors. its frequency 1600 hhz and 2200 hhz. This frequency is too small by comparison with Intel processors of same classes. But in fact this processors for example 1600 works like processors with 3000hhz from Intel corporation and AMD 2200 works like Intel processor with 4400 hhz. Plus possibility of safe overcloking up to 10%. I think its because AMD processors work in 64 bit mode, am i right? I don't understand how its works, cause my operating system and all applications like Photoshop, CorelDraw, Illustrator and other is 32 bit. I try to find an answer on this question on internet and special magazines but don't find anything. And i want ask, when we can use all ability of 64 calculations, and, how do you think, when other manufacturer of computer hardware and developers of software fully will go to 64 bit? I even don't hope on first prize. I just want answer on question that interests me for very and very long time....

Say I have the new top end GPU [HD 3870x2], then a few months pass and a new top end GPU comes out [HD 4870x2], when will the time come when we can still use our old top end card for physics or even crossfire. Having to pretty much throw the old one away would be absurd, why not be able to keep it and use it for something other than a paper weight? Thanks!

Who really has better cardes, Nvidia or ATI?

Technology has progressed quite a bit over the past several years. Having been in the industry what would you say has made the most advancement in the world of technology?

I have been thinking about a mighty VGA which produces a huge amount of data that even a PCI express 2.0 can't not handle,that VGA will have to use two PCI express 2.0 slots to transfer data .Nvidia seems to have more powerful VGAs,will Ati totally defeat Nvidia in the high-end market by releasing a far more powerful generation of VGAs like that? By the way,in my opinion,if that kind of VGAs was created,they should have built-in liquid nitrogen cooling system to keep them just below 100 celsius degree.

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Seeing the progress so far and the miniaturization increasing I wonder and ask when/how do you predict that we will upgrade/evolve to real 3d holographic displays/projectors, and after that, what would take to embedd them into a notebook? And in this respect where are we today in terms of power output and which steps would be the necessary steps to get to the necessary output necessary to produce the holografic display? Thanks.

AMD previously announced that they would open-source their drivers, mainly for the benefit of the Linux community. Many trade secrets, however, cannot be revealed. Also, OpenGL 3.0 just released to moderate fanfare from developers. Since Windows is still the platform of choice for PC gamers, what unique role will open source software have against the very solid DirectX framework and highly-tuned proprietary drivers?

With the rapid advancement of technologies used in computers and programming I have found that affordable graphics cards are obsolete long before the other hardware on a given system. As a result more than a couple cards are utilized in a system before replacement of the system itself is necessary. Even many of the "cutting edge " cards have relatively short lives. What is being done to make future graphics cards capable of significant updates increasing their potential life before replacement is required to just keep up with current capabilities of programmers.

ATI surprised us all with the release of their 4800 series, effectively fighting their way back into the graphics card war against the green team (Nvidia.) My question is simple, yet honest: who do you think has the greater future? In terms of profit, fan base, and performance, who looks more promising in the long run, ATI, or Nvidia? Thank you.

In a brilliant move, ATI has Nvidia on the ropes by virtually locking up the mid-range video card market for gamers, forcing Nvidia to aggressively lower its prices. Does ATI plan to consolidate its position in the mid-range market, thereby creating the resources needed to push gaming graphics to the next level?