Allen
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Intel CPU Shortages Were Expected To Be Ending Soon, But Major PC OEM Execs Say “They are here to stay”
According to the last update by Intel, the 14nm CPU shortage was supposed to be ending at the end of this quarter. .. from the mouths of major PC OEM execs, this shortage might last a couple more quarters, possibly even longer if they don't sort out the issue in manufacturing the CPUs.
Steve Brazier, CEO at Canalys, stated that if its a problem in architecture of the CPU itself, the timing on when the shortage will be done can't be figured out.
Intel is moving most factories away from manufacturing 14nm processors and are instead focusing on the 10nm and the 7nm for the more high-end Xeon chips for servers and cloud computing companies.
many [Intel] consumers and clients are [now] switching [to] AMD seeing as [AMD] CPUs offer more value, more cores, a modern feature set and the most important fact, that their CPUs are in stock.
AMD CPUs are doing better than I personally expected mainly because Intel has unexpectedly run into serious problems with their 10nm CPU design. The 10nm design itself has flaws that are hard to fix according to rumors and leaks (as noted in the above article and elsewhere in this thread).
Intel 7nm CPUs have been rumored to have some of the same design issues -- so may be a couple years away from true release. Considering Intel's bank account, I assumed a year ago that they would quickly fix all this. Maybe quickly was a bad assumption. But, they will fix it eventually.
