[VRNews]

Six weeks on, and ATI Radeon HD 5850 and 5870 cars are still facing availability issues. TSMC and AMD just cannot ship enough Cypress products to meet the runaway demand. As a direct result, as we expected, the HD 5800 shortage is causing delays in ATI's release schedule. Of course, the product most affected is Hemlock or HD 5900 series. Rumoured to be releasing late-October, now Hemlock seems delayed to late-November. The reason is simple - if AMD were struggling to put out a single Cypress die, what are the chances that they will have enough for a dual Cypress product?More details next page.


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[Rumour] HD 5800 series shortage causing delays

[watzup_ken]

The last sentence was the first thing that came to my mind. Sadly after so many months after the release of the first 40nm chip, TSMC is still struggling to keep up the supply. I was hoping for things to improve towards the holiday season.

[Neo_XF]

Is this the future? With smaller and smaller chips, bigger and bigger problems in manufacturing them?

[Philip]

Heng I got my 5870 liao!

Phil

[reddevil0728]

That's bad. was actually hoping the price will drop in late dec