Lately it has seemed like a new netbook is announced weekly. With so many players hoping to turn a profit in this now hot computing sector, it’s no wonder that the demand for Intel’s Atom CPU is high. Sean Maloney, Intel’s executive vice-president commented in an interview with the Financial Times saying that Intel had received more orders for Atom than the company had expected.
We’re ramping it strongly and are still catching up with the demand. I’m not expecting the shortage to last long.
The chief exec of Asus had forecasted back in April that there would be a shortage of Atom chips until the third quarter. Interesting to know now that the Atom based Eee 901 is going to be on the market soon. The shortage could make the Eee 901 harder to buy for some time.
I’m rather surprised that they are having supply issues, Intel seemed rather affluent in their Atom advertising, maybe they weren’t expecting so many OEMs to jump on the netbook bandwagon so soon.
[FT.com]
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:21 am
Or maybe Intel does not want to produce so many “Low Cost” CPUs?
June 3rd, 2008 at 2:39 pm
I agree with you Hanzo.
June 3rd, 2008 at 8:56 pm
Yup, this is like the Asus Eee, it took a few months, like 3-4 months for it to be in stock. Cause in the beginning it cost more than it was sold at, and so it took a little time to adjust things so the loss weren’t too large.
There probably is a problem with the Atom chip, not high enough yield, power leaking..
Has anyone seen if any of the new Atom based laptops are fanless?