NVIDIA nForce4 SLI Boosts DFI Revenues

Better than expected sales of its two recently released Nvidia nForce4 AMD64 motherboards helped push DFI’s January revenues up 28% sequentially to NT$242 million, according to the company. DFI released the two high-end motherboards – the LANParty NF4 SLI-DR and LANPartyUT NF4 Ultra-D – earlier this year and expected to ship 7,000 units in January, boosting its revenues 10% on month. However, stronger than expected demand helped the company ship about 10,000 units last month, and DFI expects shipments of the two motherboards to total 17,000 units in February. About 25% of the shipments were for the SLI-based NF4 SLI-DR motherboard, sources at the company pointed out.

..DFI will also be releasing a mainstream Nvidia nForce4 motherboard by CeBIT, though it has no plans to release an nForce4-4X socket-754 motherboard, the sources indicated. For socket-754 motherboards, it is more cost effective for DFI to use the VIA K8T800P or ULi M1689 core-logic chipsets, the sources explained.

In related news, DFI has recently begun collaborating with overclocking memory module specialist G.Skill to bundle their products together.

Nvidia nForce4 SLI motherboards help boost DFI’s January revenues 28%
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