14 DAY TRIAL // According to Advanced Micro Devices, the industry of PC games is currently “blooming,” considering the positive adoption of the company's ATI Radeon HD 4800 graphics card series. AMD has managed to sell around two million units of its ATI Radeon HD 4800 series, recently said Randy Ho, the company’s channels sales manager of the graphics and chipset business in ASEAN.
Randy Ho has also said that the momentum continues with a wider range of systems being announced by the maker’s partners - OEMs (original equipment manufacturers) revealing high-performance gaming systems. Some of the industry biggest players, like Acer, Fujitsu Siemens, Gateway, HP, and Medion, are included in the list of the named partners.
Computer makers like Alienware, Falcon Northwest, Velocity Micro, Maingear, CyberPower, iBuyPower, Commodore Gaming, ExtremePC, Biohazard, Puget Systems and other system integrators are also reported to have expressed the intention to produce systems that would feature the ATI Radeon HD 4800 series graphics.
The use of the company's 4800 series of graphics solutions allows OEMs and system integrators to deliver immersive game play, stated Randy Ho. According to him, the cards are available in a wide range of systems, from those based on the AMD Phenom X3 and AMD Phenom X4 processors to systems powered by the Intel Core i7 and Core 2 processors.
“The wide usage of the ATI Radeon HD 4800 line of graphics cards only means that PC gaming is very much alive and growing,” Ho said. The executive also seems confident in the fact that PC gaming hardware revenues will be able to outpace this year the $43.4 billion registered in 2007. According to him, there are about one billion personal computers in the world.
The new designs, says Ho, are able to offer PC users the “ultimate visual experience” through playing latest video game titles, editing videos and photographs, as well as watching high definition content. The systems offered range from those featuring a single card configuration, making use of the performance per dollar leadership of the ATI Radeon HD 4850, all the way to those that combine the power of two ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 graphics cards in a fast quad GPU configuration, while using the ATI CrossfireX technology.