AMD set to acquire ATI

Saw on the news recently that AMD has reached an agreement to acquire the graphics chips manufacturer ATI with $4.2 billion IN CASH and 57 million shares of AMD common stock. Wow! This is really a rather unexpected move! Seems like AMD is no longer content on offering microprocessors alone and is set on provide an entire package like what Intel is doing...From the news AMD hopes to integrate the GPU into its microP within the next few years. Too bad after the deal AMD would already be cash-strapped and won't be able to acquire any chipset manufacturers like Via or Sis. I was wondering why AMD choose to acquire ATI instead of Nvidia since Nvidia already manufactures the nForce Series chipset for AMD processors? Well they must have their reasons.

Wonder how Intel would respond to that? But whether the deal goes down still depends on the decision of the shareholder of both companies... The computer scene is getting more and more interesting. First we have Macs that can load Windows, now this. Shall see what happens next. Bug free Windows? Nah....that's never going to happen...lol