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AMD admits it can't meet HD 5000 demand

by on25 November 2009

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Will do something about it, hopefully

 

In a chat with the Inq, AMD Product Manager Dave Baumann admitted the outfit was facing serious shortages of all HD 5000 series product, but that it is doing what it can to remedy the situation.

Baumann confirmed that there were some production issues with TSMC and that there was not much AMD could do to improve the situation. AMD can't migrate to another fab, but it hopes production will ramp up over the next few weeks. In fact, Baumann is promising AMD will soon increase shipments by a factor of 10. Don't ask us how.

According to Baumann, AMD is still on track to introduce Redwood and Cedar products in Q1 2010. However, AMD launched the 5800 and 5700 series weeks ahead of real availability, so we're not sure if Cedar and Redwood will face similar supply issues. Hopefully TSMC will resolve all production issues by then.

Basically it seems AMD will struggle to ship enough cards for the holidays. On the other hand, Nvidia isn't facing such issues. It has nothing to ship anyway.

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