http://www.digitimes.com/bits_chips/a20041020A4018.html
Anyone want to hazard a guess as to what next weeks adventures in "why the high-end cards are in short supply" will unfold ?A shortage of flip-chip substrates in Taiwan may slow the shipment of graphics processors designed by ATI Technologies and Nvidia, according to sources in Taiwan. ASE said that due to a water shortage in Taoyuan county in late August and early September, it was not able to produce enough flip-chip substrates at its subsidiary, ASE Chung-Li, to package chips.