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To be honest it's possibly the biggest reason why I haven't put an order in. I just refuse to pay silly prices for something that was half the cost a year ago. Funny how Sumsung, Hynix ect have earned record profits in the meantime. Shortage my backpassage.If DDR4 halves in price (it's doubled in the last year or so), you'd be able to get an overclockable R5 1600 build for like £350. Ridiculously tempting, even for someone like me that rarely upgrades.
Coffeelake is a shortage you can't buy one anywhere and looks like it'll be that way until the end of the year.
It may well be labelled as 2000 not that I’ve seen that yet, but if you look at their roadmap zen 2 has always been 7nm as in it’s the second generation Ryzen chips, not the Zen + refresh.
What I don’t understand is that with coffee lake their is quite literally more demand than supply, hence why you will struggle to buy one, yet Intel have not doubled their prices to make hay while the sunshine’s. With ram I have no doubt that demand is higher but you can still buy ram, you can still buy smart phones and ssd’s. The product are on the shelf waiting to be bought. Now all of a sudden we hear the Chinese getting in on the action and now these big suppliers decide they want to build more fabs to limit the risk of the Chinese gaining market traction.
Maybe never the less I think it’s better to limit the confusion and refer to the newer cpu’s being released as Zen + and the one later next year as the 7nm Zen 2. At least that’s my understanding of it.
That’s my issue with it the prices are rising because they can not because they need to. To me that’s profiteering.
It's like fuel. Supply and demand affects the price but we never exactly run out.
With fuel it’s priced on production and can be easily artificially controlled to affect prices, you often see the price of a barrel reduce yet the price at the pump stay largely the same, you see the price of a barrel increase and almost immediately the price at the pump rises.
So potentially their could be a “shortage of supply” in-defiantly, and when DDR 5 comes around presumably everything will also start to use that too, so these high prices could potentially be permanent and everyone will by then be used to paying it.
. Makes you wonder how the Chinese are able to put themselves into a market and produce memory quicker, than these already well establish memory giants are able to increase supply.Raven Ridge is already using the 2xxx naming, so the Zen+ successor to the R7 1700 will surely be the R7 2700 rather than the R7 1750 or whatever.
