ATI to Leave the European Retail-Market?

[KeiFront]

http://www.xbitlabs.com/news/story.html?id=1011051153

According to our sources, ATI will stop selling its own graphics cards in Europe in the near future. ATI’s own graphics cards will be first of all replaced by solutions from Hercules, which has an exclusive agreement with ATI. it says that Hercules will be the exclusive supplier of ALL-IN-WONDER graphics card family, including ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 8500DV, in Europe. Moreover, Hercules will also ship the regular graphics cards built on RADEON 8500 chips.

[Technoid]

if it means that hercules will write drivers......

[The Rock]

Thats one helluva feather in ATIs cap. And I'm sure no one would complain if Hercules took a stab at the drivers.

Bart

[Dr Mordrid]

I think anyone taking a stab at the drivers is an improvement over ATI doing them

Dr. Mordrid

[Indiana]

Well you surely mean "anyone except CreativeLabs", now don't you?

[jackzod]

Well usually they take the reference one and adapt them, they don't write new drivers, unless I'm mistaking.
I remember when I had Thriller3D from Hercules, they just took the reference drivers and adapt them, they never wrote one, and when the reference died, the Hercules drivers died too.

BTW since Hercules have been nought by Guillemot , and Guillemot is based in europe , its not so surprising they got the retail contract.

[Snake-Eyes]

Originally posted by The Rock
Thats one helluva feather in ATIs cap. And I'm sure no one would complain if Hercules took a stab at the drivers.

UGH

Hercules basically does repackage reference drivers. Also, they tend to be a bit slow about getting them out the door once the reference drivers have been made available.

Ex.: I have a Hercules GTXP sound card, and while it's working great now, there are several people here in the forums that can tell you exactly how long it took Hercules to actually get the fixed version out after the reference drivers were made available to the manufacturers. (Several cards based on the same DSP chip came out long before Hercules' did)

Pray they do better with ATI hardware.

[Dr Mordrid]

Indiana:

ATI...Creative....whatever.

Idiots and morons are generally interchangeable

Dr. Mordrid