Supply Chain Confused with Intel, AMD, and NVIDIA Launch Dates

[AleksandarK]

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.


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[Vayra86]

Oh no! Product arrives later and might be scarce! Muh consumption urges!

/careface

 

[Bwaze]

Does it even matter?

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.

 

[londiste]

For a partner company it definitely matters. The production chain for something like a GPU or a motherboard is long and manufacturers are timing everything to be ready for launch, to get the products out and bringing in revenue as soon as possible. Having to change the dates - even to postpone the launch - is annoyance at best with some stock issues and actual cost at worst.

 

[R0H1T]

That's hardly going to matter in the short to medium term, there's a good chance the pandemic is here to stay for at least another 6 months or so. Demand will only grow slowly, the real pain of nCoV is yet to filter through the system especially on consumers!

 

[Bwaze]

For a partner company it definitely matters. The production chain for something like a GPU or a motherboard is long and manufacturers are timing everything to be ready for launch, to get the products out and bringing in revenue as soon as possible.

The article talks about problems of retail channels, surely OEM partners that have to make products are exempt from this?

 

[TheinsanegamerN]

That's hardly going to matter in the short to medium term, there's a good chance the pandemic is here to stay for at least another 6 months or so. Demand will only grow slowly, the real pain of nCoV is yet to filter through the system especially on consumers!

Well given that Corona no longer matters if you are on The Right Side of History (tm), I highly doubt it will stick around another 6 months. Economies that are opening up are seeing only the expected small spikes that the medical system can handle, and oh yeah, there havent been a massive increase in cases from the "protests" which started over 2 weeks ago. Corona's incubation is 2-11 days, average of 5. The "pandemic" will only last another 6 months in states willing to torpedo their economies running from a cough, and with every excuse under the sun being used to handwave concerns this last few weeks compliance with mask laws and stay at home orders have effectively evaporated.

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.

 

[R0H1T]

Well given there's a possible second wave, an actual wave not a ripple, in China there's a fair way to go still. We haven't even seen how this will evolve or devolve in the northern hemisphere's fall/winter when the last global pandemic, over a century back, just got so much worse but let's see! I agree with the sentiment that it hasn't turned out to be as bad as some of the worst estimates, though we're still very much in the middle of it

Let's not pretend there's a light at the end of the tunnel just yet.

 

[Vayra86]

Well given that Corona no longer matters if you are on The Right Side of History (tm), I highly doubt it will stick around another 6 months. Economies that are opening up are seeing only the expected small spikes that the medical system can handle, and oh yeah, there havent been a massive increase in cases from the "protests" which started over 2 weeks ago. Corona's incubation is 2-11 days, average of 5. The "pandemic" will only last another 6 months in states willing to torpedo their economies running from a cough, and with every excuse under the sun being used to handwave concerns this last few weeks compliance with mask laws and stay at home orders have effectively evaporated.

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.

This whole theory stands or falls with the conviction that you will accept a percentage of deaths over the norm. If you as a society do not decide that you will, the next lockdown is coming soon.

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...

 

[Franzen4Real]

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.

Sorry to be off topic, but I must know... where exactly do these mayonnaise ghouls reside, and what have they been displaced by???