The colleagues over at Digitimes are reporting that TSMC has improved yield rates on its 40nm manufacturing process, with the quality now being about the same level as its 65nm node process, according Mark Liu, Senior VP of Operations at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC).

The 40nm yields have been haunting the Radeon series 5000 graphics cards in terms of availability. Also NVIDIA"s upcoming Fermi based graphics cards (GF100) are based on the very same fabrication process at TSMC.

 During a company event yesterday, Liu stated that the chamber matching problems that had impacted yield rates for the company's 40nm node have been resolved. Liu did not elaborate any further.

This news will stabilize the market and good volume of DX11 class graphics cards should be on the horizon, along with it better prices as high volume will allow the prices to drop.