We asked around what is going on today in
the graphics world, a month after Fermi launched. The summary looks something
like this - Geforce GTX 480 sales are doing just fine; Nvidia is happy with
the numbers and they finally have enough chips to sell.
Geforce GTX 470 is not selling that great,
but it’s still moving. Nvidia fears that it might get stuck with quite a lot of
GF100 Fermi based cards in the channel and until it clears out the GF100 stock,
it cannot move to a new GF104 based products.
The launch of Geforce GTX 465 is expected
sometimes next week, at Computex. ATI is still happy with having the
fastest card on the market Radeon HD 5870 X2 and dual chip Nvidia cards is
yet to be seen.
Radeon HD 5870 and 5850 are still selling
but all graphics cards sales in Europe has slowed down and not selling as one
would expect. Summer time can also take a part of the blame, but from
what we hear, the slowdown in sales is stronger that one would expect for this
time of the year.
It must be the euro-crisis.
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Weak euro hurts graphics sales
Slower than usual