TSMC claimed their 40nm yield issues have been resolved, but according to Digitimes, the current shortage of graphics chips is largely caused by low yields of 40nm process at TSMC.
Although the defect density of TSMC’s 40nm technology is said to drop from 0.3-0.4 per square inch to 0.1-0.3, the improvement in overall yield is still incapable of catching up with market demand. AMD has almost completed the allocation of Radeon HD 5xxx series, and NVIDIA is also ready for transition to 40nm, so the shortage problem is expected to last till May.
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Back in December last year Micron announced the first SSD with SATA 6.0Gbps interface – RealSSD C300, and the model in 2.5″ form factor has lately hit retail at the company’s online store.
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EVGA has just announced the SLI Enhancement Patch Version 25 based on NVIDIA 196.21 Driver which enables SLI for a few new games.
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AMD has just released the Catalyst 10.2 WHQL driver for Radeon HD 5830. It doesn’t bring any updates compared the driver released last week, so the non-HD5830 users can stick to the old one.
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NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480/470 is set to debut next month, but the pricing is undoubtedly beyond the budget of mainstream users. NVIDIA has recently revealed that they’re releasing lower-cost Fermi products sometime in the middle of the year.
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Shang-Yi Chiang, Senior Vice President of R&D at TSMC addressed several hot discussed issues at the TSMC Japan Executive Forum in Yokohama earlier this week, including the company’s 40nm capacity & yield issues, high-k and 28nm & 22nm technologies.
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NVIDIA has already confirmed that the GeForce GTX480/470 will make their debut on March 26th, but rumors circulating around the web indicate that second-tier graphics card makers are unlikely to start mass shipments of their Fermi products until April since most of the them have not yet received complete reference board designs.
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Yesterday we reported Asus Radeon HD 5970 Ares graphics card coming from their famous ROG series, and the Semiaccurate site has scored a couple of pictures of its PCB.
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Confirming our earlier report, AMD has today announced the Radeon HD 5830, the lowest-end model of HD 5800 series.
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Infineon Technologies has recently filed with the US ITC (International Trade Commission) accusing its competitor Elpida. The complaint accuses Elpida of unfair trade practices by making and importing in the USA DRAM semiconductors and products that infringe four Infineon patents covering inventions in semiconductor processing and device manufacturing.
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We’ve just learned that Asus is cooking up the first non-reference Radeon HD 5970 graphics card – Radeon HD 5970 ROG.
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Intel’s first hexa-core processor Core i7-980 Extreme Edition was reported to be released on March 16th, but the processor has been found listing at the Austrian retailer Alternate.
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Although Intel has never revealed there is some connection between the BCLK/QPI and iGPU frequency/performance, our tests have shown there is definitely one.
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With the approaching of Radeon HD 5830, Asus has also developed a custom cooled HD 5830 – EAH5830 DirectCu.
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NVIDIA has developed a GeForce PC kit to provide DIYers with an optimized PC and enable them to enjoy building the PC by themselves.
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