Friday, March 6th 2009
AMD GPG To Make and Break Partnerships With AIBs
AMD's graphics product group, the core division that handles the company's ATI graphics and AMD chipset product lines, is said to be engaging in a reshuffling of its add-in board partners (AIBs). These are companies that manufacture and/or sell ATI Radeon-based graphics cards. With the recent success of the Radeon HD 4000 series graphics processors, the company added two more popular AIBs: Pine Group (XFX Graphics) and Gainward, a subsidiary of Palit.
Inter-AIB competition meant that a few weaker, non-performing AIBs have come to light, which AMD is reportedly contemplating breaking partnership with. GeCube is the first brand. GeCube is the channel-vendor brand for InfoTek Corp, a manufacturing partner for AMD GPG. Speculation is rife about hardware giant ASUS also being in the league. The most plausible explanation is poor sales figures.
On the other hand, a Chinese company that is relatively unknown to the Western markets yet not new to selling graphics cards, Colorful is joining AMD's league as an AIB.
Source:
ATi Forum
Inter-AIB competition meant that a few weaker, non-performing AIBs have come to light, which AMD is reportedly contemplating breaking partnership with. GeCube is the first brand. GeCube is the channel-vendor brand for InfoTek Corp, a manufacturing partner for AMD GPG. Speculation is rife about hardware giant ASUS also being in the league. The most plausible explanation is poor sales figures.
On the other hand, a Chinese company that is relatively unknown to the Western markets yet not new to selling graphics cards, Colorful is joining AMD's league as an AIB.
26 Comments on AMD GPG To Make and Break Partnerships With AIBs
I'm guessing it brings in some money, at least.
Hahaha yeah lol then charge like $75 more for it.:eek: i really hope they do drop these 2 from ATI sales.I hate ASUS for its money marketing schemes,
Yep, no single ROG mobo based on an AMD chipset.
And it never said a thing about Motherboards now does it.....They might have an ROG Amd 890FX board. They might drop ASUS as video cards but they can not afford to loose them as a motherboard manufacture.
www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList.aspx?Submit=ENE&Description=4850&bop=And&Order=REVIEWS
Sapphire first and Asus second , why would they do this ?
Or the Formula boards.
Oh and BTW, nothing wrong with Colorful cards, my brother has a pair of their 7900 GS models which have been running flawlessly for nearly 2 years now.