ATI AMD's chipset business rockets sky high

Vikingod · Dec 15, 2005, 09:09 AM

"We managed to see some Mercury Research chipset numbers. We were shocked and you may be as well. Like everyone, we expected that Nvidia is rocking Athlon market and that ATI might have a design or two.

It seems that Nvidia does rule the retail market as all we hear is Nforce 4 SLI, Ultra or plain, most of AMD motherboards are using these chipset. At least the high end ones.

Let's talk about some numbers of Athlon 64/Opteron based HT Bus chips. Nvidia shipped one million chipsets in Q3 2004 and had 43 per cent market share. ATI had zero percent market share, Via had 43 per cent with 950 000 chipset sold in that quarter while SIS had 11 percent with 250,000 chipsets sold. It was a slow quarter, I guess."
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mike2h · Dec 15, 2005, 12:30 PM

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* UPDATED 16:36 GMT. Figures we gave in the story below contained an editing editor. Nvidia did far better than we suggested. Nvidia shipped five million rather than 500,000 chipsets, as we originally reported below. We apologise to both Nvidia and our readers for this error.

The_Neon_Cowboy · Dec 15, 2005, 12:52 PM

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Vikingod Int'l Fish Liaison Join Date: Jul 2004 Location: By the light of lamp I sit and type... Posts: 16,149 Rep Power: 85 System Specs	ATI AMD's chipset business rockets sky high "We managed to see some Mercury Research chipset numbers. We were shocked and you may be as well. Like everyone, we expected that Nvidia is rocking Athlon market and that ATI might have a design or two. It seems that Nvidia does rule the retail market as all we hear is Nforce 4 SLI, Ultra or plain, most of AMD motherboards are using these chipset. At least the high end ones. Let's talk about some numbers of Athlon 64/Opteron based HT Bus chips. Nvidia shipped one million chipsets in Q3 2004 and had 43 per cent market share. ATI had zero percent market share, Via had 43 per cent with 950 000 chipset sold in that quarter while SIS had 11 percent with 250,000 chipsets sold. It was a slow quarter, I guess." __________ Read More / Source: The Inquirer __________________ *How You Can Help DriverHeaven By Using Digg*

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