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posted by mrpg on Thursday November 15 2018, @09:37PM   Printer-friendly
from the nani-kore!?!? dept.

Asustek Computer has seen its shipments to the DIY sector and related motherboards affected by Intel's supply strategy for CPUs, with the prospects that the CPU shortages, particularly those for desktop PCs, will continue into the second quarter of 2019, according to company CEO Jerry Shen.

The continued CPU supply crunch, escalating US-China trade disputes, and increasing competition in the notebook segment in Europe have pressed down Asustek's "operational visibility" for the fourth quarter of 2018 to the lowest level of 20% compared to an over 50% seen in previous years, Shen said.

Although Intel has pledged to address the supply issues since September and has continued to pour investments to ramp up output from its 10nm process, the tight CPU supplies have not been solved as the US chipmaker has given the priority to the production of high-end Xeon and Core series CPUs, instead of CPUs for the entry-level or other consumer models, Shen indicated.

CPU shortages to continue into 2Q19, says Asustek CEO

This intel "shortage" remains unexplained.


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  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Friday November 16 2018, @10:30AM

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Friday November 16 2018, @10:30AM (#762640) Journal

    I'll also add that since Nvidia launched the GTX 2000-series at very high prices, due to a lack of effective competition from AMD, there's not a lot of pressure to force down the 1000-series prices. AMD has to release some new GPUs, which could result in both sets of cards dropping in price.

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