AMD Delays Radeon HD 6000 Launch, Nvidia Ready to Pounce
AMD Delays Radeon HD 6000 Launch, Nvidia Ready to Pounce
Posted 09/28/2010 at 5:50am
| by Paul Lilly
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Word from behind the lines where graphics cards are produced is that AMD recently postponed the launch of its Radeon HD 6000 series, pushing back the release from October 12 to sometime in November.
This gives Nvidia a short Window to steal some market share that would have otherwise gone towards AMD next month. To help do that, Nvidia plans to launch its new entry-level GeForce GT 430 in October, while also trimming the price on its existing GeForce GT 220 and GTX 460 graphics cards.
Getting back to AMD, sources say the company's HD 6000 series will use a 40nm manufacturing process as Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) opted to skip over its 32nm R&D for GPUs and advance directly to 28nm. This would seem to give some weight to the leaked AMD slide that we posted yesterday.
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net_neutral
September 28, 2010 at 2:22pm
Nvidia is ready to pounce on what with what exactly ? please do explain....
Scootiep
September 28, 2010 at 6:01am
Check Fudzilla, same story, incorrect information. It's not being delayed, 67xx is still being released in Oct. in limited numbers, November is supposed to be 66xx & 64xx & 1st Qtr 2011 is 68xx (although I have also heard that the 68xx & 64/66xx is switched). Oct 12 was never a launch date, it was journalists event that's been pushed back to Oct. 14th.
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