AMD Worldwide Developer Relations Manager Interview
Bit-tech has a very good interview with Richard Huddy (Link). Excerpts below.
bit-tech: IF – given we don’t know yet – when Nvidia’s Fermi cards finally arrive they are faster than your HD 5970…
RH: Well if it’s not faster and it’s 50 per cent bigger, then they’ve done something wrong.bit-tech: Well if it is then, do you have something else up your sleeve to compete?
RH: Let me say that I suspect that through 2010 it’s possible there will be moments where we don’t have the fastest graphics card, but I expect that for the majority of 2010 we’ll have the fastest card you can buy. I’ve good reason for believing that but I can’t talk about unannounced products or any of the stuff we’re doing to secure that.bit-tech: I bet you must sell plenty because we keep getting asked where can we find a HD 5850 all the time.
RH: Actually we’re working really hard on that supply and the numbers are going up quite dramatically – we’ve sold over 800,000 units of DirectX 11 hardware already.