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Saturday, 07/29/2006 2:55:01 PM

Saturday, July 29, 2006 2:55:01 PM

AMD/ATI - the hidden hand of IBM ?

http://messages.finance.yahoo.com/Technology/Computer_Peripherals/threadview?m=tm&bn=1660&ti...
http://tech.sina.com.cn/h/2006-07-26/110849457.shtml

Passes on the IBM loan to help AMD to purchase the ATi amount to reach as high as 2.3 billion US dollars
Http://www.sina.com.cn on July 26, 2006 family of the 11:08 actuation
Author: P2MM

This AMD and buys ATi by 5.4 billion Dollar large amounts of money, on the surface AMD is sur- loans 2.5 billion Dollar by own cash to Morgan Stanley and buys ATi. But, disclosed according to the insider that, AMD and buys in the middle of that part of 2.5 billion Dollar which ATi borrows, some 2.3 billion Dollar are provide by IBM.

And buys in front of ATi in AMD, the AMD innate cash is 3 billion Dollar, and is insufficient to the sum total and buys ATi. But, at present IBM made loans to AMD 2.3 billion Dollar goals still not not clearly. The outside extrapolated that, IBM has the possibility and buys ATi through AMD this, holds stock AMD, finally has the possibility and buys AMD.

Moreover, the insider disclosed that, IBM this loan gives AMD, all is operates in secret through the financial company, IBM certainly did not hope competitor and so on Intel, nVIDIA knew it invests gives AMD the details.