We have a tendency of following the development on the graphics card market and right now the inability of AMD’s partners to meet the demand for Radeon HD 5800/5900 cards is in focus. Some more concrete information from AMD has surfaced where John Byrne, Global Vice President for CPU, GPU and chipsets, unsurprisingly puts part blame on semiconductor manufacturer TSMC.
Byrne says that it is still doing pretty well with its 40nm venture where it has now launched no less than five cards of the Radeon HD 5000 family.
Even if availability of, e.g. Radeon HD 5970, is very poor today it planned the launch to coincide with the big increase in availability of Cypress GPUs, used by both the 5800 and 5900 series.
In the very near future, as we overcome supply constraints, we will be increasing shipments of 5800 series graphics processors by roughly an order of magnitude, moving from thousands of units shipped per week to tens of thousands. This should alleviate some of the pent-up demand.
At the same time it says that the Radeon HD 5700 series is satisfying the existing demand.
