Intel has made a concrete response to AMD's acquisition of ATI by revoking ATI's chipset production license, which will take effect starting next year. This means that ATI will no longer be able to produce chipsets supporting Intel processors from next year or even longer. Among ATI’s plans for this year, the upcoming RD600 chipset has not been canceled yet; however, it remains unclear whether this product will ultimately be released and become ATI's last chipset supporting Intel processors.
Given that Intel has been heavily promoting its support for ATI CrossFire graphics cards with the launch of the 975X chipset and dual-core processors, there is reason to believe that Intel will continue to support CrossFire graphics cards in its high-end products in the foreseeable future. However, support for CrossFire cards has already been removed from Intel's 965 series chipsets.
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