The basic reason for radeon HD 58xx scarcity is the insufficiently high release level of suitable 40 nm chips by TSMC. Although the latter promises, that the situation in any minute will be improved, many associate consider that the deliveries volumes of radeon HD 58xx will rise to the acceptable level only in the first quarter of the following year.
AMD representatives again confirmed that the problems with the release level of suitable chips limit the production volumes of radeon HD 58xx, but they not so strongly lag behind the plan. Video card series radeon HD 57xx, for example, are released on large quantities . The announcement time of radeon HD 5970 was selected with the calculation for improvement in the situation with RV870 chip accessibility.
According to AMD representatives , soon the deliveries volumes of video card radeon HD 58xx will be increased to ten times. Instead of thousands of video card the company will supply tens thousands video card in the week. Situation will be improved already during December this year.