Motherboard manufacturers in Taiwan are uncertain about how the market is looking to end for the second quarter and has therefore been conservative with putting in too large orders for circuits for its video card manufacturing before the traditionally bad season during the second quarter ends. This has in turn made NVIDIA pull down on the manufacturing of its G71 based circuits which has now caused a lack of G71 graphics circuits in both Europe and the USA. NVIDIA Taiwan has replied to the criticism regarding the lack of G71 circuits with that it only manufactures high-end circuits on demand and that it is aiming for keeping a balance between supply and demand. Other information states that NVIDIA is having problems with its 90nm G71 circuits which should be because of bad yields at TSMC.
“Reports of shortages of the high-end chips have appeared since the product was released late in the first quarter, with sources at motherboard makers stating that Nvidia did not aggressively push the product. Motherboard makers, for their part, were conservative about placing aggressive orders moving into the traditional slow season in the second quarter, the sources explained.“
Source: DigiTimes
