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About two weeks ago rumors of ATI and AMD merging spread like wildfire across the Internet. These rumors were quickly squashed with people wondering why AMD would pick up ATI and alienate Nvidia. Last night once again rumors began popping up that a combined cash and stock deal would occur for AMD to acquire ATI. This morning AMD released a press announcement confirming that they would indeed be merging with ATI. More rumors have sprung up now that Intel has not renewed its license with ATI to create Intel chipsets so it looks like AMD won’t have a chance to create Intel chipsets. I don’t know what AMD is thinking by joining forces with ATI, AMD’s primary chipset manufacturer’s opposition. Perhaps we will see a new wave of chipsets for AMD from ATI and Nvidia putting more attention into the Intel chipset market. This would also make SLI the dominate Intel multi-gpu platform and Crossfire the dominate AMD multi-gpu platform. Oh how times have changed.

Combine geeks with robots and a street full of traffic and entertaining situations naturally arise. Earlier this week, during the South by Southwest conference held in Austin, Texas, Make Magazine’s associate editor Phillip Torrone and Eyebeam’s R&D fellow Limor Fried converted a Roomba vacuum into a modern version of Frogger. This game attracted many viewers as the litle green robot scurried across the four-lane road multiple times till being hit twice, and pronounced dead after the second collision. Here is the cnet article that showcases a few pictures of the Froggerbot in action.