Intel Coffee Lake-S availability to improve once Chengdu supply hits the market

Even though Intel's Coffee Lake-S processors launched over a month ago, global availability has been very low. Rumors about extremely low supply started surfacing before the launch date and even today it's very hard to find a store that has the processors in stock for a normal price.

German tech site ComputerBase says that may change within a couple of weeks as the chip giant is dedicating more capacity to Coffee Lake. At the moment, Intel is only using its Malaysia plant but soon an assembly/test site in Chengdu, China will also start cranking out Coffee Lake chips.

Intel says product availability will improve once chips from this secondary location enter the retail channel.