Lower prices boost GPU demand

With the economic decline having a positive impact on the online gaming market, graphics card makers have reduced their prices by 10-20% over the past three weeks and successfully increased sales. Built-up inventories have also been reduced, according to a Chinese-language Commercial Times report.

As a result of the cleared inventories, AMD and Nvidia are expected to adjust their reduced outsourcing to Taiwan wafer foundries and packaging and testing houses back to their usual volumes by the end of February in 2009, added the paper [via digitimers]