Memory shortage is limiting amd production

AMD has been very limited in its capacity to manufacture graphics cards due to the high demand that exists for GDDR5 chips, which are used in PS4 and Xbox One consoles in their different versions, so there is a great demand.

AMD does not have enough GDDR5 memory to make its cards

Currently the availability of GDDR5 and DDR4 memory is very scarce, this creates a situation in which manufacturers are severely limited in their production capacity, as they do not have sufficient access to the chips of these types of memory. Memory manufacturers cannot quickly increase their chip-making capacity, so it is not easy to alleviate this shortage situation.

This has meant that AMD has not been able to manufacture as many graphics cards as the company would have wanted, to which is added the high demand for these for cryptocurrency mining, creating a perfect cocktail so that prices are much higher than what should. The latter has caused the Radeon RX 500 to be seen for up to 500 euros or even more.

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Lisa Su has reported that memory is more of a limiting factor in production than the manufacturing capacity of the foundries the company works with like GlofalFoundries, creating a situation where AMD cannot produce as many GPUs as they would like.

Regarding where we are in the market today, surely the GPU channel is lower than we would like, so we are increasing our production. Right now we are not limited by the silicon that our foundry partners are supplying to us, there is a shortage in memory. We continue to work with our memory partners and that will certainly be one of the key factors as we move forward in 2018.

Hopefully the situation will improve throughout this year 2018.

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