LordHawkwind
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some bullshit about they didnt order many wafers originally but more at the end of the order or some crap
i think
either way its bs
Actually it makes sense. AMD had to produce the Soc's for the consoles as they had contracts to fulfill. With Ryzen they are gaining market share from Intel and Zen 3 promised big IPC improvements so would further increase market share. They are also a CPU company first and foremost.
They have zero market share in enthusiast GPU's so this was not really a big influence for them. When they were planning these launches they would have thought they would only sell a small amount of 6xxx cards so best to leave them till last.
Unfortunately the pandemic hit, the Ampere launch was terrible and suddenly all their plans go out of the window. They could have still handled it better but maybe come May/June they will have enough cards to meet demand. Only problem is will there still be the same demand or are all their missed sales now lost just like me a veteran Radeon owner. Time will tell.