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The release level of suitable 40 nm chips from TSMC is distant from the ideal, and therefore, the risked to release RV740 on the new technical process AMD company was forced to search for methods to compensate the scarcity of radeon HD 4770 video cards. As provisional measure AMD lowered the price of radeon HD 4850 video card, and powerColor company proposed the radeon HD 4730, actually based on 55 nm chip RV770 with the reduced to 128 bits memory bus .
Due to the scarcity of RV740 there is some rumors about AMD that can stop the release of video chip from the unsuccessful technological sense. However, those are only rumors. Now the release level of suitable 40 nm chips did not reach the required values, but gradually situation will be improved. Demand for video cards series radeon HD 4770 still and will remain high .
Associates report that the announcement of RV870 chip will take place in the present year. It will become base for the new two-chip graphical solution AMD and mass video card average price segment. Related Products :
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