Monday, August 30th 2010

AMD Kills ATI Brand, Future Products to Feature Brand Change

This had to happen eventually, and it did just happen: AMD has dissolved the ATI brand completely, and consolidated ATI brands, such as Radeon and FirePro under the AMD main brand. Under the new branding scheme, new graphics products AMD launches (such as the upcoming Radeon HD 6000 series), will do away with "ATI" completely from the logo, marketing material, and so on, and the market will, as it already has been doing since the AMD-ATI merger, albeit informally, refer to Radeon/FirePro products as "AMD Radeon" and "AMD FirePro".

AMD explains its move as an "evolution of the AMD brand portfolio", saying that consolidation of ATI-branded products under the main brand results in reduced marketing overhead. It claims to have surveyed several thousand discrete graphics-aware users in in the U.S., U.K., Germany, China, Japan, Brazil, and Russia. The survey revealed that when made aware of ATI-AMD merger, AMD preference triples; AMD brand is stronger than ATI (against graphics competitors); and that people see Radeon and FirePro product names more conspicuous than ATI, indicating a "permission" to consolidate ATI into AMD. The survey was conducted entirely by AMD.
The company also claimed that this is the perfect time AMD could possibly consolidate ATI brand, because Radeon products are experiencing good sales, and there's high market penetration of AMD's graphics products. Finally, AMD revealed the new brand logos that are nearly identical to the present ATI logos, of course, minus the revered "ATI".

Looking ahead in the future, AMD expects its Vision branding strategy to cover a wide range of PC processor products, making it easy for consumers to choose a PC. Individual processors still carry their own logos, while Vision serves as a blanket logo to describe what the PC is capable of. AMD made it clear that existing Radeon HD 5000 series product (including the Radeon HD 5000 which are being manufactured or will be manufactured), are not affected by this change.

The transition will take place gradually. While current products aren't affected, with future product-lines (starting with Radeon HD 6000 series, and next-generation FirePro). Partners can choose between two kinds of logos (shown in the first image above), one which is more recognizable with the AMD corporate logo embedded, and one without.

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111 Comments on AMD Kills ATI Brand, Future Products to Feature Brand Change

#101
Super XP
$immond$perhaps AMD will introduce a new women to replace Ruby, perhaps a strawberry blonde with piercing blue eyes...

Sigh* The best kind of women are blonde and blue eyed!
:roll::rockout:
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#103
DonInKansas
$immond$perhaps AMD will introduce a new women to replace Ruby, perhaps a strawberry blonde with piercing blue eyes...

Sigh* The best kind of women are blonde and blue eyed!
Yeah, if you like them to be just another one of a zillion that are the same.....

I will go NVidia forever if Ruby retires. :roll:
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#104
Scrizz
doninkansasyeah, if you like them to be just another one of a zillion that are the same.....

I will go nvidia forever if ruby retires. :roll:
+1
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#105
RoutedScripter
I am still without words on the matter , what will happen to all cool GPU print jobs , THE BOX , and stickers ...etc

I will going to order some sticky paper and make stickers my damn self , ...
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#107
phanbuey
IF anything they should have done it the other way... and killed off the AMD brand and made them ATI CPU's LOL... Id much rather have an ATi than an AMD.
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#108
nt300
Good point but AMD is more than 45 years but ATI is about 25 no. Still bad move to remove ATI logo from discrete video cards.
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#109
a_ump
they should've still kept at least their AMD logo in white on all their shit, that way as someone stated earlier they'd increase their credibility to the general customer, get their name more known. But nope....they didn't
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#110
Super XP
I still think AMD has a chance to keep ATI as there discrete graphics name ONLY.

Nothing sounds better than ATI Radeon :toast:
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#111
RoutedScripter
AMD Radeon
AMD Catalyst
AMD Firepro


eyemdi cetalist lol :wtf:

eytiay reydion ..etc just fits more.


It was good as it was , as it was developed in mind of making it fit and smooth , now when you mix things together randomly it doesn't make sense , AMD fits for Athlon and Phenom ,because they developed the name for the "AMD" to FIT , just like ATI did with Radeon and Catalyst , finding the right words so it fits when you talk and goes smooth out of the tounge.
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