techspot.com - 10/22/2009
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According to several unnamed sources cited by Fudzilla, the shortage of AMD's Radeon HD 5000 ("Evergreen") graphics cards is largely because the company didn't order enough 40nm wafers from Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC). This is contrary to the original belief that AMD was ...
xbitlabs.com - 10/20/2009
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xbitlabs.com —
The chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices
said that the company would be able to ship...
more ATI Radeon HD 5000-series graphics cards in the coming weeks. AMD admits that at present the situation with availability of the latest DirectX 11 ...
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AMD Vows to Improve Availability of ATI Radeon HD 5000 ...
fudzilla.com - 10/22/2009
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fudzilla.com —
Image Explains the shortage AMD's CEO claims that
big orders are responsible for the shortage of Evergreen...
cards, but from what multiple sources have confirmed, the company simply didn't order enough 40nm wafers from TSMC. According to our sources ...
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ATI didn't order enough 40nm wafers
techspot.com - 10/20/2009
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techspot.com —
When AMD's Radeon HD 5000-series "Evergreen" GPUs hit
the streets last month, it quickly became apparent that...
the company rushed its new DirectX 11-enabled graphics cards to market. AMD simply didn't have enough units to go around and getting your paws on an HD 5870 was very difficult. Today, ...
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AMD says Evergreen availability to improve in the coming ...
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AMD looks ahead to profitability, talks about Fusion and mobile DirectX 11 GPUs
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... for the second time -- though, it is a limited edge with few DirectX 11-capable applications available. AMD has also gone on the record, promising to launch a Fusion product in 2011 , which is the company's venture to combine GPU and CPU cores on a single die. With the company's two new x86 architectures (not to mention its Phenom II refresh , new desktop platforms , or its various upcoming notebook processors and platforms ), its tight supply of Radeon HD 5000 cards, its Eyefinity project , and its Vision ...
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