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To: Mani1 who started this subject	10/21/2001 5:20:38 AM
From: peter_luc	Read Replies (1) of 275872

More about P4 shortages and actual rebound of PC demand See theregister.co.uk (sorry if already posted) "P4 shortages cause Athlon XP drought By James Watson Posted: 19/10/2001 at 16:34 GMT The serious shortage of Intel P4s has led system builders to chase extra Athlon XPs to keep assembly lines running. Every major UK system builder is saying the situation is very serious - for every other PC manufacturer except themselves. We've heard reports that several companies have been on line stop this week - which means they've had to shut down production becasue there's no processors to be had. Intel has confirmed its 478-pin Pentium 4 shortage problem in a memo to distributors, and printed here on the Inquirer site. It says that while overall supply is healthy, 478-pin P4s would be in short supply during October. It attributed this to heavy demand and recommended system builders to use 423-pin chips instead for now. It also mentions that both 423-pin and 478-pin P4 2GHz chips would be in short supply throughout Q4. In turn AMD has admitted to very brisk business and the appearance of some major players, who usually concentrate on building Intel boxes, asking for Athlons. Distributor Avnet has said AMD's Athlon 1500+ XP and Intel's Pentium 4 1.5GHz chips were in high demand. A spokesperson from the company says the market has rebounded tremendously in the past few weeks, leading to the supply issues from both competing vendors. (...) Express Hardware, a components reseller, commented this week that it was completely unable to get hold of any 1.5GHz chips at the moment and was experiencing difficulty with other P4 lines as well. It was able to get the same 1.5GHz chips "a few days ago for about £107 ... now there is absolutely nothing," says a source in the company. Another reseller, Computer Junkies, says it has been told that chips are scarce due to excessive demand. (...) Last week, Realtime Distribution added that some of its customers were cutting back on motherboard, graphics card and hard drive orders to bring those items in line with available chip supply. (...)" Peter

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