14 DAY TRIAL // While end-users are no doubt eager to see just what AMD's upcoming high-end video card is capable of, it appears that they will have to do some more waiting as certain issue have reportedly pushed back its launch.
That the AMD Radeon HD 6970 would be delayed was implied not too long ago, although no real reasons were known at the time for why this would be.
Naturally, the first instinct of at least part of the user base would be to assume that AMD has to make it more powerful, perhaps so that it may pose a greater challenge to NVIDIA's newly launched GTX 580.
Another possible assumption would be that the CPU and GPU maker somehow ran into yield issues and simply does not have enough cards to actually stage a launch event.
Nevertheless, at least one report has arisen which states that the so-called delay, which has not even been confirmed at this point, may happen for different reasons.
VR-Zone states that the real reason for the supposed pushing back of the formal announcement is the shortage of certain components.
To be more specific, Texas Instruments apparently has an insufficient supply of DrMOS chips, the same type of chips used on all of AMD's HD 6800 Series graphics cards.
While worrisome, it is interesting to note that this reported shortage of DrMOS chips doesn't seem to have affected the HD 6800 cards that have already been released.
Other information revealed by this new report, and the previous one, says that AMD did not yet finish the BIOS.
Its partners, or most of them, also haven't received sufficient quantities of the Cayman graphics processing unit.
All in all, the launch has supposedly been pushed back somewhat, by at least a week if the reports are to be believed.
VR-Zone says that the exact date of arrival should be revealed by the end of the ongoing week, at which point consumers will at least be able to know how much longer they have to wait.