ATI 4QF05 Conference Call

I think Dave just touched on this, but perhaps ATI's mark of uniqueness in that statement was that they included chipsets. Correct me if I'm wrong, but up until the 6100 nvidia IGPs were still only DX7 compliant?

 

with loss of 100mln$ per quarter.... how much cash they have? Given the low availability of X1 series... i doubt they'll make big profit next quarter.

 

Quarterly profits/losses don't actually necessarily equate to cash; its common to make a quarterly profit but cash goes down, or a quarterly loss and cash goes up.

 

annual profit is still ~17m, next profit should be better because of xbox360 sales start.

 

Latest figures indicate US$644 Million, with less than $30 Million debt.

 

When looking at financial statements, there are many non-cash items which can contribute to the loss reported. For example, when the estimated value of your inventory goes down, it doesn't affect how much cash you have in the bank, but it does contribute to your loss. And there are other accounting things which add up, but aren't really tangible. Based on a casual glance at their statements, ATI's actual cash loss appears to be significantly less than $100 million.