AMD Vows to Improve Availability of ATI Radeon HD 5000 Graphics Cards In Weeks

From X-bit Labs: The chief executive officer of Advanced Micro Devices said that the company would be able to ship more ATI Radeon HD 5000-series graphics cards in the coming weeks. AMD admits that at present the situation with availability of the latest DirectX 11 graphics cards is improper. Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company is partly guilty of insufficient shipments of ATI Radeon HD 5000-series graphics cards.

“TSMC has made good progress with the 40nm technology. At this point our new ATI Radeon HD 5000 family is pulling on 40nm and as is always the case with the hot new product early in the launch: we are hand and mouth on supply. I expect that situation to improve over the coming weeks and months,” said Dirk Meyer, chief executive officer of AMD.

At present ATI, graphics business unit of AMD, ships Radeon HD 5700 and 5800-series graphics processors and aims premium segments of the market. Unfortunately, due to relatively low yields of 40nm chips at TSMC, the company cannot ship enough DirectX 11 graphics chips to satisfy the demand.

AMD last week reported revenue for the third quarter of 2009 of $1.396 billion. Third quarter 2009 revenue increased 18% compared to the second quarter of 2009 and decreased 22% compared to the third quarter of 2008. In the third quarter of 2009, AMD reported a net loss attributable to AMD common stockholders of $128 million, or $0.18 per share, which includes a net favorable impact of $54 million, or $0.08 per share, primarily from a $66 million gain from the repurchase of debt. AMD's operating loss was $77 million.

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