Intel’s Coffee Lake CPUs are rumoured to have supply issues at launch

  
It has long been rumoured that Intel has rushed the launch of Coffee Lake to compete with AMD’s Ryzen series of CPUs, moving Intel’s schedule up a quarter from a release in Q1 2018 to this week;s October 5th release. Now rumours are starting to circulate that Intel’s supply of Coffee Lake CPUs will be constrained at launch, creating a situation where Coffee Lake CPUs will not be available in adequate quantities until mid-late December or at worst the start of 2018. 

This makes sense given Coffee Lake’s rumoured initial release timeframe, offering up the potential for a Skylake-like launch where CPUs were supply was not high enough to keep up with demand, resulting in a situation where CPU prices could be inflated well above Intel’s MSRP. 

 

  

Sweclockers, in recent conversations with Swedish retailers, have found out that the supply of Coffee Lake CPUs will be low on launch day, with minimal supply coming to market in October and November. 

If this is true Intel are placing themselves into a bad position for the next quarter, as Coffee Lake will eliminate a lot of demand for Kaby Lake and the low supply of Coffee Lake CPUs will convince many consumers to look elsewhere, perhaps convincing them to build an AMD Ryzen-based system instead.

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