Guru3D is reporting that the Radeon 6900 series has been delayed until Dec 13th. The reason for this shortage has been reported to be due to the immature manufacturing process at TSMC. However, Guru3D is reporting that the real reason could be that it is a component shortage.
This TI component is an integrated driver-MOSFET (DrMOS) that was first used on AMD’s Radeon HD 6800 Series. This DrMOS is so new to the point there is no information on it on the Web, not even from the manufacturer itself.
This explanation seems to be more reasonable than the manufacturing process being the problem. TSMC has had plenty of time to get its 40nm processes working, and it does not seem to be affecting rival NVIDIA. But that brings up another possible reason for the delay. With the recent release of the NVIDIA GTX 580, might be trying to increase the performance of the 6900 series to beat the GTX 580.
