Intel invested a lot of money to increase production capacity and over the past couple of months the shortage eased. But now PC vendors expect it will get worse again with the holiday season in sight. DigiTimes writes PC vendors are once again unable to get enough supply from Intel, which may result in delays of new laptop models to 2020:
Intel sees 14nm chip supply fall short of demand again: Intel has seen its 14nm chip manufacturing capacity fall short of demand again recently, which may force many notebook vendors to postpone their new model launches to next year, according to industry sources.The report also mentions that China is getting ready to launch its own, homegrown processors. Industry sources say mass shipments of Chinese ARM-based processors and GPUs are expected to start in 2020. These systems are unlikely to end up in the West though.