Monday, October 9th 2017
Newegg Confirms Limited Availability of Intel Core 8th Gen Processors
A user from [H]ardOCP has posted on the website's forums an exchange he had with the customer service over at Newegg. If availability of Intel's latest 8th Gen CPUs was rumored to be limited before, this seems to bring some more credence to those reports. Case in point: over at Newegg, orders for the Core i5 8600K processor are currently being put on back-order, with estimated shipping dates of 15 to 20 days. Pore over the i7 8700K processor, though, and you'll find it currently out of stock.
Newegg has apparently ordered over 3000 units of the Core i7 8700K CPU alone, in order to keep pace with demand (these have been well-received chips as you can see on TPU's own reviews). Newegg expects these to come in at around a "3 to 5 weeks" time-frame. What separates this particular availability problem from being simply an issue of overly high demand is that Intel's Coffee Lake processors were already expected to be limited in availability even before they were launched. Remember that while Intel probably had such six-core processors as these taped out well in advance already, they did pull up their launch window so as to better compete with current AMD Ryzen offerings.
Sources:
HardOCP, Newegg 8600K, Newegg 8700K
Newegg has apparently ordered over 3000 units of the Core i7 8700K CPU alone, in order to keep pace with demand (these have been well-received chips as you can see on TPU's own reviews). Newegg expects these to come in at around a "3 to 5 weeks" time-frame. What separates this particular availability problem from being simply an issue of overly high demand is that Intel's Coffee Lake processors were already expected to be limited in availability even before they were launched. Remember that while Intel probably had such six-core processors as these taped out well in advance already, they did pull up their launch window so as to better compete with current AMD Ryzen offerings.
23 Comments on Newegg Confirms Limited Availability of Intel Core 8th Gen Processors
The beginning of this sentence makes my head hurt.
When dit the 8799K came out? :p
But else it nothing new that hardware just released is low in stock the first periode after release. I have seen that over and over again. No big surprice there.
Where are the naysayers who said AMD didn't force Intel's hand, or is Intel doing a GF suddenly?
I'm thinking either English isn't your first language or you do not have any familiarity with misspellings or intel's processors.
The i5 8600k is not non existent, it's just a typo, should be i5 instead of i7. For the second part it ought to be, "Move over to the 8700k".
Good luck trying to bring non English speakers' verbal or grammatical proficiency in a technical forum, I believe the OP is also not a native English speaker!
I do have familiarity with Intel's processors, though. Think again.Thanks, R0H1T ;) I'm not, in fact, a native English speaker/writer.
And poor AMD will have a poorer quarter than they would have if Intel hadn't put that doubt in the back of our minds. It won't matter to many if it's not available or if it's currently being overpriced and probably will throughout the year and into next year.
It'll only matter that Ryzen 7 is inferior at gaming and no longer the new hotness.
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To say that AMD was necessary to get this chip, well, you might make that argument... if you assume they made it way back when because they figured Ryzen might be a threat.