In the market of video cards are now experiencing an unusual situation where the demand for some device greatly exceeds supply. AMD partners are still unable to meet demand for the video card Radeon HD 5800/5900. AMD has in the person of John Byrne (John Byrne), Vice President of Global Sales CPU, GPU and chipsets, announced some more specific data on this subject, and, not surprisingly, tried to shift the blame on the manufacturer of wafers for the chips, the company TSMC.

Byrne said that TSMC is still not perfect with the release of 40 nm process technology, and now you want to produce neither more nor less, and the entire family of five cards Radeon HD 5000. And one of them, Radeon HD 5970, two-chip. So the gap in the market for these high-performance models is due solely to lack of chips Cypress, and only when these chips will be produced much more than now, we can expect widespread availability of video card series Radeon HD 5800 and 5900.

AMD has promised in the near future when we can overcome the limitations of the proposal, we will increase the supply of graphics processor 5800 series is about an order, passing from the thousands of units sold per week, tens of thousands. This should reduce the backlog of demand. "

At the same time, this statement says that the Radeon HD 5700 series of full (or almost fully) meet the existing demand.