Monday, December 3rd 2012
AMD Pushes Radeon HD 8000 "Sea Islands" Launch to 2Q-2013
According to industry sources, AMD pushed launch of its next-generation Radeon HD 8000 "Sea Islands" family of GPUs to the second quarter of 2013 (April-June). The delay comes in the wake of the company going through reorganization within its ranks, in response to poor market performance in Q3-2012. The company originally planned to launch its GPUs before the end of 2012. NVIDIA plans to launch a refreshed lineup of Kepler GPUs in 2013.
Source:
DigiTimes
29 Comments on AMD Pushes Radeon HD 8000 "Sea Islands" Launch to 2Q-2013
Anyway I agree, stay away from Asus graphics, they seem to be haunted with issues.
I'm not defending these prices at all, but just want to point out how the current top end single GPU cards have been priced the same for a very long time. It's all a matter supply/demand. nVidia and AMD know very well that this price point seems to be the sweet spot balancing consumer demand, production capability, and profit margins. It's good business.. but i'd personally like to see the prices lower as well. I miss the days of buying a top of the line card like the nVidia Geforce256 i once had for "only" $250. That was 1999 i believe.