As we recently mentioned here, Acer had plans on releasing at least two notebooks based on Intel Core i7 and ATI’s newest Mobility Radeon HD5650. Few days later it became clear that there is heavy shortage of HD5xxx chips and videocards, which would apply also to the mobile graphic cards by ATI. Our guy at Acer commented that we can expect a delay of the new HD5650-based models, although he couldn’t say how much we’ll have to wait.
According to other sources the delay will be at least to Q1 2010, which is rather disappointing, considering how ATI has the edge in desktop graphics and still lags on the mobile market (although much has changes with Mobilty Radeon HD4xxx series, NVIDIA still seems to have better range of chips in late mid and high-end notebooks), where those new Radeons would shine.
It's not the Mobility Radeon 5650...
No Twisted rating this time as the demand is not by ATI’s fault, nor Acer could do anything about it. We wonder why ATI had to delay new mobile chips at all, bu that’s different story anyway.
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