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Thanks.
And what about this new company?
Damn these new 3rd party vendors popping out of nowhere(Zotac,Xpertvision..........).Makes hard to decide.
"XpertVision is Palit's European VGA graphics cards brand. Only recently they released an announcement that the brands will merge again to become "Palit Microsystems Ltd."."
palit has three divison namely - Palit,gainward and xpertvision.
*www.palit.biz/main/about.php?id=1
zotac is also a company based in hong kong
being based in hong kong they get an edge to get chips at very very low price which are fabricated in taiwan (which is the powerhouse of chip fabrication in Asia,other plants are situated in singapore,malaysia and south korea)...inface most of semicondutor chip needs of asia and middle east and even europe today is fullfilled by chips fabricated in taiwan.In some cases chip fabrication cost is cheaper than US.
both nVidia and ATI (before AMD took over ATI ) are "fabless"(FABricationLESS) companies ...which means they don't have their own fabrication plants and their fabrication is done in taiwan..for example for both nvidia and ati .... a semiconductor foundry (as they are called for semiconductor fabrication plant) called Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Limited (TSME) used to fabricate the chips,which incidentally is the biggest semiconductor foundry of the world.Offcourse AMD has its own fabrication plant as Intel so ATI has got one of its own foundry now,but ATI still has an agreement with TSME.
now since the chips are manufactured in taiwan ...and hong kong being closest and also being in same country...china,the companies ...even small start ups like zotac and palit gets the chips for very cheap..much cheaper than US counterparts...and thus they can make the graphics cards available for very cheap,still maintaing the quality since the chips are from ATI and nVidia anyway.if they use a high quality components ..then product turns out to be good. its simply that chip market is flourishing so new market players are coming up.
thats the story behind new companies coming out of nowhere....they are good in their own right ..but being very new in the field ..they are not well known...this was same situation with XFX(which is the subsidiary of pine technology)about 4-5 years ago.... its a well known name now...and incidently its also situated in hong kong.
ASUS is a Taiwanese company,but we don't find much cheaper products from asus...cos they strive for qulity...and quality comes at a cost.
MSI is again a Taiwanese company.. all the good company are Taiwanese.....moreover if one can look at them they are all Chinese...but definitely Taiwan has set its standard sky high ...when compared to other Chinese products..which are miserably bad and dirt cheap...
having said all that ...xpertvision also have launched HD4850 cards ...which is now available at lynx @ 9250/- including taxes ....phew! ...prices are just keep coming down for HD4850...so one can get HD4850 at 9.4k max !!!!! and 9800 gtx+ still costs 12.5k....3k more ....
