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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (218249)	11/30/2006 5:27:52 PM
From: dougSF30	Respond to of 275872

Rockton has also been largely ignored so far...and I think that's going to have a rather large impact in H207.

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (218249)	11/30/2006 5:49:28 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Not a high-margin product for ATI, but will be very high volume. Nintendo says 600,000 Wiis sold in eight days By Reuters news.com.com Nintendo sold 600,000 units of its new Wii video game console in the first eight days after its release in the Americas, as the company vies with rivals Sony and Microsoft for gamers' hearts and wallets. Including sales of accessories and games, Nintendo's Wii-related revenue had hit $190 million since the machine's November 19 release, the company said. At $250, the Wii costs half as much as the cheapest version of Sony's PlayStation 3 console, which went on sale in the United States two days before the Wii hit the market. Many fans of both systems lined up at retailers hours or even days in advance of the launches to guarantee they were among the first to claim ownership of the highly anticipated machines. The consoles are also being hawked on Internet auction sites such as eBay for several times their retail price tag. Sony has not revealed how many PlayStation 3 consoles it has sold in North America so far, but has said it aims to have shipped 1 million units by the end of the year. Microsoft has shipped more than 6 million of its Xbox 360s since launching it in November 2005.

To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (218249)	11/30/2006 6:03:19 PM
From: Plissken	Respond to of 275872

I agree. We already have the duality of GPU and CPU in the midrange to high-end desktop, things are moving there on the laptop as well. Lots of special purpose server workloads are looking to be coupled with commodity infrastructure. At the lower end, highly integrated "value" is the future. AMD leapfrogged Intel on the system architecture front while they had the eyes on the CPU ball. Intel may find that the audience has gone home while they are doing their end zone dance.