"AMD cancelled wafer agreements with Global Foundries and are using TSMC for all their GPU production. Apparently TSMC are giving nvidia and qualcomm priority over AMD hence the lack of cards available at the moment."
Firstly - where does my post state that 79xx cards were ever made at GF? The point was that nVidia are apparently, for whatever reason, getting preferential treatment at TSMC.
Edit:- from my post timestamp, you checked all competitors and posted back on here in 7 minutes?! The point is that AMD are apparently struggling to supply due to shifting production.
Actually that is where you implied it, how can they struggle to due to shifting production.... if they didn't shift production, so yeah, you directly implied they were struggling with allocation at TSMC for GPU's after stopping producing them elsewhere... its rather hard to shift production without them being made somewhere else first, or did they shift production from TSMC to, TSMC. On top of implying they had "shifted production" and were now struggling you also included that they had cancelled wafers at GloFo, pray tell what you mentioned cancelled wafers at GLoFo for in any way at all for any reason if you're talking about GPU's, then why are you saying GloFo cancelled production AND shifting production in the same post, about GPU's only? What you explicitly implied is that AMD cancelled production at GloFo and shifted it to TSMC. Secondly AMD have no supply issues at TSMC, they might well do for 20nm, they don't for 28nm there is big 28nm capacity and there is no sign, no industry hint, no rumour they are struggling for capacity, nor has there been shifting production.
Now I don't claim to know what I'm talking about, I'm only reporting on what I've heard from a reseller (and I can't reveal my sources).However if they were not getting anymore stock, they would have advised accordingly.
Interestingly there are reports and rumours that suggest the next gen cards will not be available until Q3. If this holds true I find it difficult to believe that AMD have just introduced the Reloaded bundle for the 78xx and 79xx cards, but are not making anymore of the cards and there will be no more stock other than what resellers currently have.
There are reports that AMD is trying to keep their costs down by lowering stock/supply-chain numbers. That would be a stronger case than your statement that resellers are not getting in anymore stock.
AMD publically said new APU and GPU offerings in Q2, random website says, with no source, no information that AMD and Nvidia are delaying next gen cards till Q3.... who to believe, websites who look for hits, or AMD CEO... tough choice, really tough choice. Simple fact is, when you've done the refresh, they are ready and can be in production why would anyone produce the older cards, it makes no sense, after a year you can simply tweak the design to improve yield and reduce size keeping identical performance, this means, increased profits even if you just released a redone 7970, they've improved performance a bit, maybe added features, meaning they can sell them for more.
There is no reason to produce a 7970, when you can be producing 8970's which can sell for more and are faster, no reason at all. Once 8970 production starts, 7970 production halts, simple as that.
I by the way didn't claim resellers wouldn't be getting any more stock, anywhere, I said they are less willing to buy in large volume, which as an absolute indicater they are aware something is due soon, and that there is less stock in the channel which implies production has stopped and availabilty in the channel has reduced.
PS, most resellers don't have a clue, and AMD don't go around actively saying "hey, we're got 100k 7970's here, they'll be worth half as much in a month, but please buy them", its not exactly a way to encourage resellers to buy them.
I've worked for a couple of resellers now, you don't need to know a thing about computer parts to find out what sells and buy then sell it.
Is that a stronger case than my statement that resellers wouldn't be getting any more stock, you know, a statement I never made at all, or implied in any way?
