Question: The new HD4xxx series of ATi graphics cards offer an excellent price/performance ratio for consumers. Does AMD/ATi plan on continuing this with future products instead of trying to make a $700 monster card that a very small percentage end-users can afford? Having cards that offer high-performance at a relatively low cost could prompt OEM's to ditch (or at least reduce usage of) low-end Intel Integrated graphics chips that are usually combined with a pretty decent CPU to create a massive bottleneck that turns ignorant users away from games because when they try a game it runs horribly. Elimination or reduction of that situation could really give PC Gaming a boost.

One thing that prevents many mainstream computer user from becoming involved in "hardcore" gaming is the low processing power of integrated graphics that are standard on most prebuilt systems. AMD/ATI has some models of these used in laptops and some desktops. Does ATI plan to make integrated graphics that are better equipped for recent games?

Before answering to the next question, please have in mind the following : I'm from Romania. A good friend of mine lives in the USA. And now the question : When do you think I will be able to really slap him during an online game tournament and he actually takes physical " damage " ?

With touch screen technology now available, it would seem the future is finally catching up. I would imagine that virtual imaging technology for computers is right around the corner and we'll soon be wearing goggles and gloves to surf the web. Does ATI have anything in the works for this frontier?

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While ATI has displayed an impressive ability to innovate, particularly with the HD4000 series and the Crossfire update that lets you mix and match graphics cards, AMD is still lagging slightly behind Intel in the processor market (particularly in the high-end market). Are there any new innovations or performance boosts planned for the future?

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ATI seems to be leading Nvidia in the graphics market at the moment, but Nvidia is currently launching PhysX, which will run on all their recent cards. Do you think that physics processing is going to be an important feature? Does ATI have any physics-related plans?

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AMD looks stronger in the low-end and midrange markets than in the high-end. Do you think that computing in general is moving toward massively parallel architectures, or one monster chip that does it all?

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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