Both AMD and NVIDIA have confirmed that their first video cards built on the 28nm process will launch in 2012, but the word was that part of AMDs lineup would see the light of day as early as late 2011. This appears to be wrong, according to the latest rumors.

The reason is possibly that the HD 6000 series is still in demand and the reasons for pushing a new product line into the market. The new graphics cards from both AMD and NVIDIA build on 28nm is something that many gamers have been waiting for but none of them are close to releasing these video yet. NVIDIA has already confirmed that they will not launch any products on 28nm this year but will wait until early 2012, so the current top 10 might hold for a while longer still.

Postponing the release of the HD 7000 series from 2011 to 2012 is not only due to high demand for the HD 6000 series, however, but also production capacity problems. Last month AMD had an unusually high demand for HD 6000 GPUs, because of a major influx in OEMs orders, and the distribution channels have had troubles coping with the high demand. It has also been said that since the HD 6000 series is barely a year old, there is little reason to replace it with the HD 7000 in the current situation.

Something that puts some doubts into the latest information, however, is the well-known fact that it is TSMC that manufactures graphics chips for both AMD and NVIDIA, and capacity problems are so big there already that they would have problems delivering 28nm technology before the end of 2011 anyway. Whatever the case might be, the HD 7000 series and NVDIA’s 600 series built on 28nm chips will not appear on the market until early 2012, at best.

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