Thursday, December 15th 2011
AMD Starts Shipping 28 nm GPUs for Revenue
AMD CEO Rory Read, speaking at the IT Supply Chain conference organized by Raymond James this Tuesday, said that his company had begun shipping 28 nm GPUs for revenue (meaning, in volumes big enough to fetch revenue). With it, AMD fulfilled its promise to be the first to the market with GPUs built on the 28 nm silicon fab process. AMD's foundry partner for these chips is TSMC. "We are ramping 28nm [products] with TSMC in Taiwan and shipping the products here and now. We are very excited about the products," said Read.
At the upcoming CES event, AMD will formally unveil a range of products that will use its 28 nm GPUs. CES will give AMD a good opportunity to bag design wins with large volume manufacturers of notebooks and PCs. What this means for the enthusiast community is that whenever AMD does launch its Radeon HD 7900 series, it won't be a "paper-launch".
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X-bit Labs
At the upcoming CES event, AMD will formally unveil a range of products that will use its 28 nm GPUs. CES will give AMD a good opportunity to bag design wins with large volume manufacturers of notebooks and PCs. What this means for the enthusiast community is that whenever AMD does launch its Radeon HD 7900 series, it won't be a "paper-launch".
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EDIT: Wanted to elaborate a little bit. I think they will release 20k cards or so like in the last 2-3 releases. If priced above $400, as rumors suggest, that amount of cards may certainly satisfy some of the demand amongst the (few) people wanting to pay that much in the biggest markets/retailers. Smaller retailer and markets won't see a card until a few weeks/months later tho, not in any significant volume anyway, so while enthusiasts will have cards on their hands and will post reviews, that still qualifies like paper launch in my book. Both AMD and Nvidia have done that in the last half a decade and I don't think this time will be any different.
Yup!
I admit it was fun getting to play with the 6870's but if a 7970 cost more than the 6870s (£400) i need to show some self control otherwise i will be starving while i game :laugh:
But seriously it will depend mainly on price as my lack of self control has a limit.... overdraft limit that is :laugh:
That is why they slaped a crap load of shaders on the HD4800s.