AsiaBizTech schrijft dat de Taiwenese moederplank fabrikanten Asus, Gigabyte, Elitegroup en FIC melding maken van een tegenvallende afzet van van hun i820 borden (wat een verassing! ). De oorzaak van de lage verkoop ligt volgens de fabrikanten in de hoge kosten van de i820 chipset en Rambus modules:
Local motherboard makers Asustek, Giga-byte, Elitegroup Computer System Co., Ltd. and First International Computer Inc. all reported that their 820 motherboard shipments accounted for less than 10 percent of the total last month. To add insult to injury, reports of flaws in Intel's i820 chipsets sent 820 motherboard sales down even further.They blamed the slack sales of the 820 motherboard mainly on the high cost of the i820 chipset, which restricted their ability to boost sales by cutting motherboard prices. In addition, they noted that the failure of Intel's Rambus memory (a feature of the DRAM used in its 820 motherboards) to gain a foothold in the market has also dampened prospective interest in the 820 motherboard.