by Anna Filatova
01/17/2002 | 04:24 PM
More and more details about the deal between ATI and Hercules crop up. According to their agreement, Hercules turns into one of the leading ATI based graphics card supplies in a wink. As we have already told you, ATI will no longer supply retail graphics cards in the European market, and Hercules comes to replace it here. Of course, it imposes certain requirements over Hercules Company, namely, they should offer a complete range of ATI based graphics cards, similar to the graphics cards family developed by ATI itself in the USA and Canada.
This way Hercules will have to offer analogous solutions to all fastest ATI cards. For example, today we learned that Hercules is going to ship a simpler graphics card from ALL-IN-WONDER family based on RADEON 7500 chip. Well, in fact there is nothing to be surprised at: ATI does have a similar board in its product range. It is called ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON.
Although our friends from Hardware.fr and Clubic claim that ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 7500 from Hercules will be a bit more enhanced in terms of features: it will have everything ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 8500DV has, but will be built on a younger chip model and equipped with 32MB DDR SDRAM. Of course, the price of ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON 7500 from Hercules will be a bit higher than that of the regular ALL-IN-WONDER RADEON and will be around $245.