Interview with ATI's soon-to-be CEO Dave Orton

wolfgang writes "Tom's Hardware has published an interview with Dave Orton, who will become ATI's next CEO in June. Orton talks about the transformation of the company within the last three years, the current competition with Nvidia and what can be expected from graphic chipsets in the near future. Orton believes that ATI can grab more than 50 percent market share in the desktop market in the short term."

He'd better get busy

[Neil Blender]

He should start now on that graphics card that longhorn will need.

Re:Well...

[Anonymous Coward]

Yes, because linux is the only operating system out there that matters, and it has such a gigantic share of their target markets. What in heavens name are they thinking?

NVidia

[gilgongo]

As somebody who has just upgraded their RivaTNT 64 drivers to the latest version (all of about 5 mins before seeing this /. post) I don't think flattening NVidia is going to be much trouble...

What's the rush?

[Fearless Freep]

Longhorn itself doesn't exactly seem to be in much of a hurry to get out the door

Can't.....help....it....trying....to....resist

[Neil Blender]

Longhorn will require a card that's at least ten times as powerful

and 1000 times larger and so expensive that only the five richest kings of Europe will own one.

Re:He'd better get busy

[Ride-My-Rocket]

He should start now on that graphics card that longhorn will need.

One triple-core GPU with a billion transistors, comin' right up! Now you can view your Windows desktop in 256-bit color!