TSMC problems with the release level of suitable 40 nm chips were painfully for AMD company , which begin the delivery of video cards on base of 40 nm chips a year ago. The announcement of video card radeon HD 58xx was coupled with the scarcity period, and only in this year situation began to be stabilized. By the way, NVIDIA at the end of March decided- after all to announce its video card series GeForce GTX 4xx, based on the large and expensive 40 nm chips, but in the retail network, until now, dispatches only the limited quantity of these video cards. Thus, both leading video chip developers suffered from the problems with 40 nm technical process.
AMD company recognized that the scarcity of 40 nm chips remained for the duration of the first quarter 2010, although the deliveries volumes increased. Demand continues to grow by anticipating rates, and even with improvement in the situation with the deliveries scarcity remains, although this break is reduced in the course of time. According to own AMD forecasts, the company will experience a certain scarcity of 40 nm video chip a large part of this year.
In the first quarter in the portion of 40 nm video chip were fallen more than 30% all deliveries, achieved BY AMD in this market segment. This is higher than the indices, fixed in the last block last year. As of the end of the first quarter, present year AMD had time to place on the market approximately six million graphical solutions with directX 11 support.
When NVIDIA presented the gaming video card fermi generation, AMD company drew the conclusion that its own production possesses the best relationship of productivity and energy consumption, and also the best specific productivity in the conversion to the square millimeter of core area. Furthermore, Radeon HD 5970 continues to remain the fastest video card in the world.