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Prices Intel Coffee Lake Procs Are Skyrocketing due to 14nm shortages
A while ago you have been able to read here that Global Foundries canceled 7nm to fully focus on 14nm, as that is the most profitable for them. That's was the first serious industry hint. The 14nm process sees massive productions delays and shortages, as a result, Coffee Lake at 14nm procs have risen in price significantly, some even 40% or 60%.
TSMC reported they cannot keep up with 14nm demand. Intel delays 10nm due to issues and later mentioned that instead of baking some series 300 chipsets chips at 14nm, they now order them as 22nm chip. My Dutch colleagues from the HWI noticed this as well and compiled a list of what is going on with prices of coffee lake processors, and the results are pretty shocking really, this is what has been happening in just three weeks time:
| Lowest price with stock | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 1st of September | September 22 | Difference | |
| Core i7 8086K | € 419 | € 459 | 10% |
| Core i7 8700K | € 349 | € 420 | 20% |
| Core i7 8700 | € 319 | € 425 | 33% |
| Core i5 8600K | € 249 | € 299 | 20% |
| Core i5 8600 | € 225 | € 298 | 32% |
| Core i5 8500 | € 205 | € 256 | 25% |
| Core i5 8400 | € 199 | € 279 | 40% |
| Core i3 8350K | € 174 | € 200 | 15% |
| Core i3 8300 | € 139 | € 169 | 22% |
| Core i3 8100 | € 109 | € 175 | 61% |
| Pentium G5600 | € 89 | € 100 | 12% |
| Pentium G5500 | € 81 | € 97 | 20% |
| Pentium G5400 | € 60 | N/A | N/A |
| Celeron G4920 | € 51 | € 52 | 2% |
| Celeron G4900 | € 38 | € 42 | 11% |
For example, if you are eying a Core i5 8400, then you should know it became 40% more expensive ever since the beginning of this month. The Core i3 8100 is now 61% more expensive compared to really September.
When you average the processors out, you will see an overall price increase of 23 percent, that's for the entire range with lots of fluctuations per CPU. It seems the shortages are substantial on the 14nm production lines, which makes me wonder what is to happen with the pending Core 9000 series launch, which also is based on 14nm coffee lake.
Distributors mention that there will be severely limited stock available for Core 9000 (8-core Core i9 9900K), even less than with the Series 9000 launch, and these processors suffered from shortages in availability for months after their release.
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#5588109 Posted on: 09/23/2018 01:03 PM
Man being a PC enthusiast/gamer is getting more expensive by the day, first it was the RAM shortages driving prices up like crazy, then the GPU huge price hikes because of miners and now we have the CPU shortages!!!???
What´s next, MB shortages? Or maybe the lack of CPU coolers... Good thing i bought my current system before all this crap but i´m already getting cold sweats just thinking about a future system...
Too late. Those were already reported for some mid-low AM4 boards due to demand in china.
Man being a PC enthusiast/gamer is getting more expensive by the day, first it was the RAM shortages driving prices up like crazy, then the GPU huge price hikes because of miners and now we have the CPU shortages!!!???
What´s next, MB shortages? Or maybe the lack of CPU coolers... Good thing i bought my current system before all this crap but i´m already getting cold sweats just thinking about a future system...
Too late. Those were already reported for some mid-low AM4 boards due to demand in china.
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#5588124 Posted on: 09/23/2018 01:50 PM
8700K, Tray edition starts at 380EUR over here
8700K, Tray edition starts at 380EUR over here
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#5588132 Posted on: 09/23/2018 02:44 PM
Well, our shops have all intel's 8000 series available at 5+ stock, means no shortage on EU stores/supply chain.
And there are many 7000 chips too, including 35W T-series.
8700k seems to be running low over here, not so much the other models yet. Like stores don't have them and can't say for sure when they will and in what kind of numbers. However, prices haven't yet jumped dramatically. Maybe some, I'm not sure since I'm not really interested in Greedy Blue CPUs at the moment. Prices are generally speaking all the time higher here than in most of the world, so perhaps the stores are slower to raise them further.
Well, our shops have all intel's 8000 series available at 5+ stock, means no shortage on EU stores/supply chain.
And there are many 7000 chips too, including 35W T-series.
8700k seems to be running low over here, not so much the other models yet. Like stores don't have them and can't say for sure when they will and in what kind of numbers. However, prices haven't yet jumped dramatically. Maybe some, I'm not sure since I'm not really interested in Greedy Blue CPUs at the moment. Prices are generally speaking all the time higher here than in most of the world, so perhaps the stores are slower to raise them further.
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#5588137 Posted on: 09/23/2018 03:04 PM
Well, our shops have all intel's 8000 series available at 5+ stock, means no shortage on EU stores/supply chain.
And there are many 7000 chips too, including 35W T-series.
So, there is huge surplus of 4C/4T i5-7400 (65W) 3.0~3.5GHz to point that that comes with 125 Euro games pack.
And there is 4C/4T i3-8300 (62W) turboing to 3.7GHz with 2MB more cache and which is considerably cheaper.
And in same price as i3-8300 there is 6C/12T Ryzen 2600 (65W) 3.4~3.9GHz.
Apparently, intel can't control AMD's prices to get rid of old 7000 series. But there are plenty of people who would not even look at AMD. And just compare intel with intel.
There is good chance that intel is playing nVidia's supply chain cleanup game.
In my EU country 8700K is out of stock almost everywhere and prices start at 501€.
I'm just wondering what this means for the new 9000 series pricing... if price increase will be the same for 9000 CPUs then they will be DOA.
Well, our shops have all intel's 8000 series available at 5+ stock, means no shortage on EU stores/supply chain.
And there are many 7000 chips too, including 35W T-series.
So, there is huge surplus of 4C/4T i5-7400 (65W) 3.0~3.5GHz to point that that comes with 125 Euro games pack.
And there is 4C/4T i3-8300 (62W) turboing to 3.7GHz with 2MB more cache and which is considerably cheaper.
And in same price as i3-8300 there is 6C/12T Ryzen 2600 (65W) 3.4~3.9GHz.
Apparently, intel can't control AMD's prices to get rid of old 7000 series. But there are plenty of people who would not even look at AMD. And just compare intel with intel.
There is good chance that intel is playing nVidia's supply chain cleanup game.
In my EU country 8700K is out of stock almost everywhere and prices start at 501€.
I'm just wondering what this means for the new 9000 series pricing... if price increase will be the same for 9000 CPUs then they will be DOA.
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Man being a PC enthusiast/gamer is getting more expensive by the day, first it was the RAM shortages driving prices up like crazy, then the GPU huge price hikes because of miners and now we have the CPU shortages!!!???
What´s next, MB shortages? Or maybe the lack of CPU coolers... Good thing i bought my current system before all this crap but i´m already getting cold sweats just thinking about a future system...