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Intel CPU supply constraint worse than we think?
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Import fees?
Yeah import fees into the uk from the us...
Email me in trust and I’ll explain...
The place it is bought from includes door-to-door 'fee's'. FYI computer parts are duty free, only V.A.T. is payable, so the variable is stock availability and the $:£ rate at the point of being sold/shipped.
It would have been around $490 when ordered, lowest I've seen it is $519. Doubt it will be down to that price again anytime soon.
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The original preorder price at that place was low. Then they calculated fees and shipping which makes the £470 delivered price, or there abouts. This is all done in advance, no surprises later.
The price has gone up now, and preorders as stated above have taken a very, very long time to ship.
The price has gone up now, and preorders as stated above have taken a very, very long time to ship.
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Intel’s supply constraints will ease slightly in q1’19 but will take another 6 months despite the extra $1B in Capital Expenditure to ease constraints. The fascinating thing for me is that Intel is converting fabrication capacity back from 10nm to 14nm and that is a worrying sign long term.
Chip fabrication plants are hugely capital intensive so it’s an either an amazing destruction of shareholder value, or their 10nm process is really dead above the low end low TDP parts. It’s what Charlie at semiaccurate.com said a while ago, then Intel denied the claim.
Major OEM partners have already been told no new server chip architectures will be available until 2020, obviously they aren’t banking on CascadeLake-AP so that’s sounds more a paper launch to show shareholders they are “innovating” in the face of Epyc and soon Rome.
On the OEM side you are seeing more and more Ryzen laptops from HP and Lenovo with Dell joining the party too! Best laptop deals over Black Friday we’re mainly Ryzen 2300U and 2500U laptops.
A couple of friends picked up 2500U laptops with 8GB ram and 256GB NVME for £399 and £449 respectively. Try finding an i5-8400 with the same spec and you’re paying £100+.
As for public tenders specifying Intel only, what a waste of taxpayers money! Take off the Ryzen sticker and most wouldn’t know the difference.
Chip fabrication plants are hugely capital intensive so it’s an either an amazing destruction of shareholder value, or their 10nm process is really dead above the low end low TDP parts. It’s what Charlie at semiaccurate.com said a while ago, then Intel denied the claim.
Major OEM partners have already been told no new server chip architectures will be available until 2020, obviously they aren’t banking on CascadeLake-AP so that’s sounds more a paper launch to show shareholders they are “innovating” in the face of Epyc and soon Rome.
On the OEM side you are seeing more and more Ryzen laptops from HP and Lenovo with Dell joining the party too! Best laptop deals over Black Friday we’re mainly Ryzen 2300U and 2500U laptops.
A couple of friends picked up 2500U laptops with 8GB ram and 256GB NVME for £399 and £449 respectively. Try finding an i5-8400 with the same spec and you’re paying £100+.
As for public tenders specifying Intel only, what a waste of taxpayers money! Take off the Ryzen sticker and most wouldn’t know the difference.