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posted by martyb on Tuesday March 12 2019, @10:10PM   Printer-friendly
from the chipping-away-at-the-problem dept.

Chromebook popularity could prompt another round of Intel CPU shortages

Supplies of Intel's CPUs, especially at the entry-level of the market, could worsen over the next few months according to a new report, which cites a popular period for Chromebook purchases as the reason behind the potential shortfall. This could lead to price rises and availability issues in 2019, with supply potentially only catching up with demand towards the end of the year.

Intel has experienced shortages of its most popular CPUs since August 2018, with low numbers of Core i5, Pentium, and Atom CPUs having the greatest impact on availability of devices. HP, Lenovo, and Dell, among other major suppliers, were all affected, as DigiTimes reports. Those shortages have continued throughout 2019 so far, with the lack of Core i5 options leading to greater demand for Intel's own Core i3 chips, and some AMD alternatives.

[...] All of these shortages involve Intel's 14nm CPUs, rather than its planned 10nm chip lines which could make their debut toward the end of the year. To help counter the supply issues it's facing with the older 14nm standard, Intel is set to bring new fabrication capacity online at the end of the summer, potentially increasing its chip production capabilities by up to 25 percent. That should be enough to solve the supply issues, but how long it will take to catch up with demand is still up in the air.


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  • (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @10:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Tuesday March 12 2019, @10:38PM (#813503)

    Just remove the IME spyware processor and get more chips per die.

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