Tuesday, June 16th 2020
Supply Chain Confused with Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA Launch Dates
According to the report from DigiTimes, which cites industry sources, the global supply chain of Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA has been rather confused recently by their launch dates and launch procedures. Due to worldwide pandemic, there are no electronics shows like Computex that are designed for companies to showcase their products there, and thus, there is no unified launch window where you can expect a product to be launched. What's even worse is the fact that the companies have now started to keep their launch dates as a secret in the latest edition of playing with the competition. Launch dates have started to change and now the launch is uncertain even if the launch day is provided.
This has a massive effect on the industry supply chain. By not giving concrete dates to them, companies have left them to wonder when the product will launch. This is hurting their ability to prepare themselves for an upcoming product and possibly cause some delays later on. If not given enough time, the supply chain could not adapt fast enough and the product could come later in the hands of consumers.
Source:
DigiTimes (Paywall)
This has a massive effect on the industry supply chain. By not giving concrete dates to them, companies have left them to wonder when the product will launch. This is hurting their ability to prepare themselves for an upcoming product and possibly cause some delays later on. If not given enough time, the supply chain could not adapt fast enough and the product could come later in the hands of consumers.
9 Comments on Supply Chain Confused with Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA Launch Dates
/careface
Intel announced their Comet Lake-S desktop processors on April 30, "launched" them on May 27, but some of them don't seem to be available anywhere in Europe almost three weeks later (10900K, for instance).
AMD "Matisse" Zen2 desktop processors also had very slow availability, same with Nvidia Turing graphic cards. Paper or near paper launches have become the norm, so preparedness of retail channels is the least of our problems.
So if you live in california or new york you're screwed, but here in flyover "obsolete mayonnaise ghoul" territory, we're returning rapidly to life as normal.
Let's not pretend there's a light at the end of the tunnel just yet.
Unfortunately that discussion is non-existant. People say 'we're in the middle of it' but that assumes we're about halfway... as far as I know, there isn't a vaccine yet so that assumption is wishful thinking. You can simply wait for the next wave, its not a question of 'if' but 'when'. Group immunity is also a distant speck on the horizon... somewhere.
Whatever it will be... I'm not accepting a socially distant society in my personal atmosphere. Especially not to lengthen the lives of the weakest bodies. It does not serve us at all, in any imaginable form.
Aaaanyway... launch dates... :p