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AMD ships 50 millionth Hollywood Wii GPU

by on11 March 2009


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Almost 60,000 a day since its launch


AMD has
announced it has shipped the 50 millionth ATI Holywood GPU for Nintendo's Wii console. This makes Hollywood the best selling AMD console GPU, significantly surpassing previous console GPU shipments.

Nintendo has used ATI chips on a number of its products over the past decade, but the Wii's success has surpassed them all. Since its introduction in Nobember 2006, close to 50 million units have been shipped worldwide, with 44.96 million units shipped by December 31 2008.

On average, almost 60,000 Wii consoles were sold each day over the past two and a half years, which is truly a mind boggling figure.
Last modified on 11 March 2009
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