Associate reported that PLX company faced a deficit of PLX chip PEX8747, which could affect the release schedule of motherboards and graphics cards. This product is a switch PCI Express 3.0, which is used to increase the available lines of slots on the motherboard, or to link the two GPUs on one PCB.
PEX8747 a kind chip with support for PCI Express 3.0, which caused a high demand for the product. At the moment, PLX is taking measures to increase production.
Lack of PLX product could be the reason why AMD is forced to not hurry with the official release of dual video card Radeon HD 7,970 X2. Recall that NVIDIA also uses the development of PLX in GeForce GTX 690. Related Products :
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