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AMD card shortages

darkblade

darkblade

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Some stores are running low on AMD cards - particularly the 7900 series. Somewhat frustrating with the new AMD games bundle deal.

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.

The good news is that it seems OcUK had decent stocks in before this all came evident.
 
I can't name competitors can I?!

One company is out of stock of most of their 7970 cards, most others seem to have low quantities of decent cards.
If you're a powercolor fan you should be ok

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.
 
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There is actually, most sites out of stock or pre-order on the 7 series AMD cards by the looks of it.

Stock could just be late or delayed.
 
darkblade said:
I can't name competitors can I?!

One company is out of stock of most of their 7970 cards, most others seem to have low quantities of decent cards.
If you're a powercolor fan you should be ok

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.
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You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

Number of GPU's(not including APU's) made at GF....... zero, not a one. Never has a 7xxx series card been made anywhere but TSMC. TSMC giving priority to Nvidia and Qualcom over AMD, again, nope, afaik Qualcom has actually moved most of their 28nm production to.... Global Foundries.

Why is there a potential shortage of 79xx cards, its called demand and production. AMD is NOT PRODUCING 79xx cards, its producing 89XX cards and waiting for 79xx stock to be as close to sold out as possible before releasing the next cards.

89xx cards were taped out and in production quite some time ago, ready for release, and likely with some significant volume in stock. AMD has writen down their inventory value many times in the past over too much stock on hand when a new product launches, they really don't want to write down 10's of millions when simply waiting a couple months would prevent it.

As people know the 89xx cards are coming(no matter how small of an upgrade) demand for the 79xx cards goes down, and stores don't want to buy up large amounts of stock so that they have loads of inventory on hand when the value suddenly drops.

Production issue, nope, switch from Global issue, literally impossible, Qualcomm issue, nope... cards out of production because they are soon to be EOL, yup.
 
tommybhoy said:
Being the performance champ along with the Never Settle bundles, what did you expect?:p
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Freddie1980 said:
I would have thought most of TSMC's output goes to Apple and it's partners.
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I forget the exact situation but I think Apple are moving to TSMC, but are currently still producing at Samsung, maybe they've moved some/all over.

Basically taping out a new chip at a new foundary costs mucho money, Apple are almost definitely moving to TSMC for 20nm in a year or two(guess we'll see how late it is, and how Apple react to TSMC being late, and if they decide not to make the move there as TSMC seem to screw it up every time). 28nm capacity likely isn't an issue for any major player at TSMC.

20nm capacity at TSMC for Nvidia/AMD could be a huge problem early on when TSMC are likely making small quantities and Apple want it all. Apple have the cash to buy up every wafer TSMC make, and they are a customer with so much power TSMC will give them whatever they want.

Its also highly likely that any spare capacity Apple has, well, they can sell their spare wafers to whoever they want, will they prefer to sell them for AMD GPU production, which basically isn't in competition for any Apple products, other ARM chip makers, in direct competition, or Nvidia, who with Tegra are trying to take sales from Apple.... AMD/Nvidia are going to get screwed before Apple does on 20nm, and its likely Nvidia will get less spare wafers off Apple than AMD does.
 
drunkenmaster said:
You have absolutely no idea what you're talking about.

Number of GPU's(not including APU's) made at GF....... zero, not a one. Never has a 7xxx series card been made anywhere but TSMC. TSMC giving priority to Nvidia and Qualcom over AMD, again, nope, afaik Qualcom has actually moved most of their 28nm production to.... Global Foundries.

Why is there a potential shortage of 79xx cards, its called demand and production. AMD is NOT PRODUCING 79xx cards, its producing 89XX cards and waiting for 79xx stock to be as close to sold out as possible before releasing the next cards.

89xx cards were taped out and in production quite some time ago, ready for release, and likely with some significant volume in stock. AMD has writen down their inventory value many times in the past over too much stock on hand when a new product launches, they really don't want to write down 10's of millions when simply waiting a couple months would prevent it.

As people know the 89xx cards are coming(no matter how small of an upgrade) demand for the 79xx cards goes down, and stores don't want to buy up large amounts of stock so that they have loads of inventory on hand when the value suddenly drops.

Production issue, nope, switch from Global issue, literally impossible, Qualcomm issue, nope... cards out of production because they are soon to be EOL, yup.
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"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.

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.
 
TaKeN said:
So Ironic, I see you own an Nvidia card according to your signature...
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There's no irony in it at all, and the facepalm gif is just becoming stupid now. Used in situations that aren't even facepalm worthy.

You can say what you want about the comment he made being a joke or whatever but stupid little things like that are what start derailing threads.

Oh and yeah I'm mad before anyone asks.

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