Prices Intel Coffee Lake Procs Are Skyrocketing due to 14nm shortages
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Kaarme
Hardly. This is about a company having more demand for its products than it can manufacture, causing prices to rise. If someone says that leads to bankruptcy, you can tell it's no economist talking. Nobody was saying AMD was going bankrupt a while ago when it was impossible to get an AMD video card for a sensible price (if any price) because of the bloody miners.
Ricepudding
can confirm in the UK prices have gone up on the chips, the 8700k has gone up around £90-100 since i bought it back last October
Kaarme
Okay, now that I checked a domestic price watch site, the 8700k price has jumped recently over here as well. One store advertises it for 339 euros, but won't ship it before a month from now, so it's nothing but a joke. If some shop actually has it, it'll be more expensive, even outrageously more.
robintson
Looks like another price-game from Intel and TMSC, not the first and surely not the last one as well. Increase of $$$ profits while cutting the supply for the cpu targeted models that sell the most
Killian38
Everything is lining up perfectly for AMD to steal the show in 2019/2020. First Nvidia with unreal prices now Intel. All AMD needs to do is refresh their mid range GFX cards and sell it cheaper than anything Nvidia offers and "BAM". Best bang for your buck all across the board.
Prices have went up 5-10% here on U.S. newegg. Have not checked amazon. We normally see prices jump up before the holiday season starts tho. Makes it seem you are getting a better deal while christmas shopping.
anticupidon
Looks like this will not solve in the very next future, and by the time I will think/want to upgrade Intel for sure will not be on my list. Oh well, Ryzen 2 is what I am waiting for...
Digibetus
The thing is that official distribution is not getting any supply from intel and no ETA.
Intel send out notice that the limited supply will lasy for the rest of the year.
So the traders are driving up the prices like crazy.
Where normally i can get an i3 for around €85 (ex VAT) at the moment prices are €140-170.
Ans it's not just 8th gen, 7th is also nowhere to be found.
Silva
Guess we poor guys will have to find new hobbies, I would never buy a CPU at that price.
MegaFalloutFan
Looks like I can make some money on ebay UK, they have the most expensive prices.
P.S. I only hope we get a stock of the new 8 core CPUs, if the high prices stay till November it may be a paradox when new 8 core 9000 CPU in store will cost me the same amount of money or less then my antiquated 8700K on ebay.
DLD
It's no "conspiracy theory", since it is NOT a "theory" at all - it's just a conspiracy. Companies are organized into cartels. These are so strong that they are able to (and actually do) control governments. In order to prevent any criticism, the marketing strategists who work for the companies had developed a whole variety of cunning strategies in terms of manipulations with the "public opinion". The term "conspiracy theory" was invented by these manipulators to allow them to downplay any discovery of their dirty tricks.
From Wikipedia: cartel is a group of apparently independent producers whose goal is to increase their collective profits by means of price fixing, limiting supply, or other restrictive practices.
tunejunky
while i did like the "AMD is having the time of their lives" line,
my take on this news is this is exactly why AMD got out of chip fab...with a far worse "look" for AMD at the time than Intel has now.
i cheer for AMD and not just for market disruption or competition. some engineers engineer a more elegant solution while some struggle for the functional. but i'm joking (and digressing) from the point of running with the strength of what you have.
AMD had to undergo "weight-loss" before it was a more fit competitor.
Intel at this very moment are running production from engineering fab @ 14nm and will continue to do so until further notice. while i applaud this very sensible move it only points to the desperation of the "corporate masters". they looked during memory shortages and price hikes to come up with their "best product ever" (and to some level, did) and did what they are really good at and marketed it to the point of the desirability creating demand their forecasters didn't see.
end of story
Killian38
Agree! Sad part is, there is no end.
RzrTrek
Too bad for Intel. Now I can wait for Ryzen 2.
metagamer
2700x is the chip right now it seems, £110 cheaper here in the UK than the 8700k. I'm all set with my CPU so it doesn't affect me but if I was buying now, I'd be going AMD, at current prices. Prices do change though, so there's that.
BReal85
You should buy by brain not by heart. Go for Ryzen.
metagamer
Entirely depends on what he's using his PC for. If he games and can get a good deal on a 8700k, it's still a much better gaming CPU.
Noisiv
Boy am I glad that I bought 8700k in time.
What's the explanation for supply issues? High demand? Production issues? Both?
Conspiracy I don't buy. Fixing prices for the old product lineup, and raising them in the already competitive market, makes no sense whatsoever.
EspHack
it seems intel saw the memory cartel profiting like mad and decided to try some of that amazing business idea, I honestly wonder how did it take this long to happen, now whats next? hard drive makers will complain about 30% china tariffs by increasing price 3x?
quantum hacker
Oh yes, another pseudo-shortage like with Nvidia cards. Expect in a few weeks or months there to all of a sudden be a surplus of unsold chips and a price increase of the new models 30-50%.
quantum hacker
Yes. Apple had to raise their prices too as there was no way to make any profit on their iphones because of tarifs 😉
