Ati 58XX supply levels

[fs123]

I've been checking the main etailer sites daily and noticed that for the last month or so most r-etailers had little or no stocks of the cheaper sapphire, club3d, etc brand cards at all and didn't restock them either. This was possibly because everyone was holding out for the fermi results.

I'm thinking and hoping that since no one seemed to be restocking their 58XX series stocks the card manufacturers should have had enough time to build up sizeable quantities of supplies.

Do you think we will see larger quantities of these cards now or is there still a big supply problem?

 

[Kharbyne]

I reckon there will still be a supply problem, Fermi was dissapointing most people that waited for Fermi ended up buying ATI, including myself when they get stock

 

[Alex h]

hopefully theyll start getting some in now but will have to wait and see

 

[p0rks0da]

I can't imagine anyone not restocking the 5800 series intentionally, more likely there is still a lot of trouble meeting demand. Seeing as ATI just recently raised prices on almost every card and they are well over 6 months old now, it looks like they are still having supply trouble.

I also read on Beyond3D forums that Nvidia own the lions share of the wafers coming through TSMC for the next few months (supposedly 80%) but that's obviously an unconfirmed rumor.

 

[Kharbyne]

I can't imagine anyone not restocking the 5800 series intentionally, more likely there is still a lot of trouble meeting demand. Seeing as ATI just recently raised prices on almost every card and they are well over 6 months old now, it looks like they are still having supply trouble.

I also read on Beyond3D forums that Nvidia own the lions share of the wafers coming through TSMC for the next few months (supposedly 80%) but that's obviously an unconfirmed rumor.

@ Nvidia's yield levels that 80% will be the same number of cards ATI can produce with only 20% of the wafers

 

[p0rks0da]

@ Nvidia's yield levels that 80% will be the same number of cards ATI can produce with only 20% of the wafers

Well seeing as the majority of the wafers Nvidia have allocated to them will be used for GF104 and below (by far the most important GPU segment) i think that's highly unrealistic. If every wafer was for GF100 then maybe, but i doubt Nvidia will make many more of them, if they haven't halted production already awaiting B1 tape out or a complete refresh later in the year.

The point is if Nvidia really do have that much of the wafer stock, then ATI will have trouble meeting demand for the 5800 series no matter what is going on with the GTX480/470.