[yskchu]

Because Fab space has been at a high premium for some time, many manufacturers are focusing on producing higher priced (and higher margin/higher profit) items, maybe that is why you see less availability of down market AMD products? Also, AMD was pretty much sold out across the board beginning of the year; there was basically no availability of 5000 series in most retailers, and limits on CPUs per customer when they do come in stock.

Once the semiconductor situation settles down and it all goes back to normal, you'll probably see more availability of AMD on the lower tiers - the situation is already getting better with most of the 5600 (and higher) series of cpus back in stock now.

[c_o_n_v_e_x]

The global supply chain is a mess in general. There's a shortage in chip substrates which is throwing a wrench in the gears.

On top of that, there's a container ship traffic jam for inbound ships going to the US.

[dehrmann]

Intel actually got incredibly lucky with the fab shortage because the shortage means even last-gen tech has huge demand.

[jjoonathan]

Sort of, but this is also sort of the point of owning your own fab!

There are others. What happens if TSMC has an unchallenged kingmaking node? Do they let AMD/Intel or AMD/NVidia keep their fat margins? Or do they say "the node makes the king -- start bidding"?

[fiddlerwoaroof]

Yeah, it took me about nine months to purchase a 5950x at MSRP.

[eloff]

I'm still on the waitlist for the 5950 since Christmas. I bought an AMD laptop meanwhile, but never bothered removing my name from the list. I should start a pool on how long it takes before they contact me.

[FullyFunctional]

FWIW, 5950x started being regularly in stock at the local BestBuy (USA, California, Bay Area) so depending on where you are, you might want to look around.

As for me, ironically, once I could finally get it, I decided that I might as well await the next spin. Chipmageddon appears to have taught me patience.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

I considered that, then realized it would probably be November + 9 months so I might as well.

[fiddlerwoaroof]

Interesting: as far as I can tell, you can basically just show up and buy one on NewEgg these days for $749