ATI partners are delighted with HD2000 sales

It seems that even though performance is not exactly shining, the fact that the firm's HD 2000 boards come in at a very competitive price and consume practically half the power of the competition's offerings was strong sales point. Apparently, with OEMs grabbing literally millions of cards for the back-to-school period, there was still more than enough boards for partners to put in the channel.

July and August are traditionally low on sales in world-wide retail market, with explosion in September and October, in a shopping frenzy formally known as Back-To-School. OEM scene is a bit different, with enlarged lead times to get the computers manufactured and distributed to retail and e-tail scene.

It will be interesting to see how much market share AMD can actually claw back - stay tuned. µ