“Bankruptcy rumors are swirling around long-time ATI/AMD graphics card partner Connect3D. We received an e-mail yesterday from a reader who claimed to have been “desperately” trying to get in touch with the company for the past four months without success. Indeed, the firm’s U.S. website has been reduced to a domain parking page, and its U.S. phone number yields a “this number has been disconnected or is no longer in service” message. Efforts to contact PR staff were similarly unsuccessful. Calling Connect3D’s UK number (obtained via their international website) did get us in touch with a nice British lady from Connect Components, but she was unable to tell us anything about Connect3D other than that their U.S. office is supposedly having phone line troubles.”Here is some more Tech News from around the web:
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Connect3D disconnected?
There are rumours of bankruptcy surround Connect3D, a company that has produced ATI cards in the past, and was indicated to be a major partner for AMD. The US site is no longer up, although there are links to sites Great Britain, Poland and Germany which are still active. Keep an eye on The Tech Report’s coverage of this story here.