September
25th for the faster
We expect
that ATI will be able to ship its RV710 based cards by September 25th.
It's preparing two versions of the card, a faster called Radeon HD 4550 with DDR3
memory and a slower iteration called Radeon HD 4350 that will use DDR2 memory.
The 4350
might actually launch in October, as it might not be ready for volume
production by late September.
We heard
that 4350 the slower of two should launch by October 13th with
volume availability and this card will challenge Geforce 9400 cards and it is
mainly an OEM card. This doesn’t mean that you won’t have them in the retail
market as we expect it to be extremely affordable.
These two
cards will create a lot of headaches for Nvidia as they will make sure that ATI
wins every market segment from low end to high end, this time around.
