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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