AMD Radeon HD 7000 delayed until 2012

AMD officials have on several occasions publicly pledged to publish the Radeon HD 7000 series graphics cards of the Southern Islands during the year and have made public demonstrations for the first time. However, Swedish company Nordic Hardware announced today that the release of Radeon HD 7000 series has been postponed from 2011 to 2012. year.

Why is it delayed? Many people's first reaction is probably the TSMC 28nm new process is too frustrating, but according to AMD, to a greater extent, is related to the status quo of the Radeon HD 6000 series. In the past two months, the production capacity of Radeon HD 6000 series chips has encountered some problems, causing orders from OEMs and sales channels to pile up and must be given priority. Furthermore, the Radeon HD 6000 series was only released for a year, and there is no need to rush to release the next generation of products instead.

However, according to external sources, the sales of the Radeon HD 6000 series are not as good as those of AMD, resulting in some squeezes in inventory, which must be dealt with first.

On the other hand, the yield and capacity of TSMC's 28nm process are indeed a headache. Working overtime to build a new factory is also far from hydrolyzing near thirsty. AMD, NVIDIA are competing for 28nm production lines, Apple A5, A6 processors are also strongly added. TSMC is cool, and customers can be depressed. It is estimated that TSMC can only produce 7000-10000 28nm wafers this year, which is far from meeting customer needs.

Nordic Hardware finally posted a response from another source as a further evidence of its claim: "The HD7000 series? It launches in 2012." (HD7000 series? Released in 2012.)