HEXUS.interview: ATI's Matt Skyner

Before and after the Radeon X850 XT Platinum Edition launch, we talked to ATI on a number of internal levels about their product availability. Our core enthusiast readership was clamouring to purchase high-end X800 at general retail, X700 XT was no longer an official SKU, and all reports seemed to indicate that either Dell and other large customers of ATI were buying up everything in sight, or that ATI were having trouble getting the correct number of orders in to TSMC for parts, underestimating demand.

So to see if ATI had any insight into what was happening in real terms, I compiled a list of questions for ATI and they were duly fired off. ATI's Director of Discrete Desktop Graphics, Matt Skyner, was gracious enough to take the time to reply. Here's what he had to say.