Ever before AMD launched its Evergreen series, we knew the allocation numbers for the ATI 4800 and 5000 series - and the numbers didn't look good. If the recent rumors about AMD laying off more staff in 1Q 2010 come true, we cannot view them as anything else but a company who has failed to supply enough products to the market.

Marvin the paranoid android or simply - the codename for ATI Radeon HD 5870In case you didn't know, the codenames for all 5000 series boards were named after characters in the Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy. The unfortunate part about this is that Radeon HD 5870 carried the name "Marvin" and the worldwide availability is definitely starting to look like something Marvin would comment on.

It looks like Marvin would have a comment or two on TSMC's "screwing the pooch" in a very big way. We also learned that it is not true that Jen-Hsun went to visit TSMC to discuss lowering prices of the wafers… the matter was much more serious, and it touched the overall yields that TSMC is achieving with 40nm process and what the future holds [32nm, 28nm, 22nm]. We already know the time frame of ATI graphics debuting inside GlobalFoundries and if you ask some of key insiders in AMD, that time cannot come soon enough [but first GF has to ramp up bulk silicon production].

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