We managed to confirm from both sides that the Palit and ATI relationship got into a small crisis. While Palit still orders some chips from ATI, the volume went down drastically.
Our industry sources were telling us that Palit wanted
prices that would be much lower than what ATI sells to anyone else and ATI didn’t
want to screw its other partners. Palit, as big as it is has decided to get
offended and to decrease ATI orders to a painful levels.
Spencer, the big boss of Palit enjoys royal treatment from
people like Mr Jay Pury and the big boss of Europe sales Ms. Fiona, as well as
Nvidia royal minions from Edom. This also affects Gainward the strong brand of
Palit that hasn’t ordered or released any RV740 40nm or RV790, Radeon HD 4890
chips.
At least Nvidia is happy.