Quote Originally Posted by Andrew LB View Post
TSMC has been producting .40nm chips for ATi months before consumers were able to purchase them... and much of those 1 million chips were manufactured before December while yields were very low. This is why I've always maintained the opinion that ATi jumped the gun just to get the crown for a while but forgot to remember that without profits, they wont be able to pay off all the R&D they're spending on very fast product cycles.

this makes sense....


so ati producing chips and getting them to market and having a good hold on the market for now is bad to recoup the R&D cost ???? sure......