According to our sources Nvidia ordered the majority of 40nm wafer for its 40nm mobile chips that are selling great, due to a demand for Callpela Intel notebook platform and desktop chips in 40nm in the entry level were embraced by the big OEMs as they work fine and are cheap.

So when Global Foundris is up to speed this will no longer be a problem, at least in theory, for AMD.

“TSMC has made good progress with the 40nm technology. At this point our new ATI Radeon HD 5000 family is pulling on 40nm and as is always the case with the hot new product early in the launch: we are hand and mouth on supply. I expect that situation to improve over the coming weeks and months,” said Dirk Meyer, chief executive officer of AMD.

I'm guessing this is info they got from AMD's earning conference call.

The HD 5700 on the other hand is quite good, it delivers quite a "bang-for-buck" and also brings all the features, like DirectX 11 and Eyefinity, that you can find on the HD 5800 series. Availability for the HD 5700 series is decent and partners had their cards delivered to retail/e-tail shops days before the official announcement.

Of course, AMD is quite silent when asked about this topic, and nothing can be confirmed directly from AMD, but as far as we heard so far, there is a plan for a single card, the HD 59x0. We are still not sure why there are two device ID's in the AMD Open CL driver but AMD might have put it just in case if they decide to come up with another card as well, based on dual HD 5850 GPUs.

We've learned from industry sources that AMD / ATI has already won the GPU deal for the next generation XboX console. It looks like Microsoft was happy with first Xeons GPU and it wants to continue using the same, especially since the new ATI GPU should keep the compatibility with legacy games.

Of course if your Xbox is broken, or your Playstation, or Wii, Tek Republik is the best place to get it fixed of course.