May be not error lake, but trial and error lake?Intel's gotta start somewhere. I feel Intel was rapidly losing market share because of the immense power requirement from their previous CPUs. Which is why ARM is gaining popularity in the mobile and data center processors.
I feel now that Intel is using TSMC, they will likely face the same problem as AMD, and that is the lack in supply. While there will be an initial batch that will run out pretty quickly, but I actually don't think they are selling Arrow Lake CPUs like hot cakes. Once Intel starts producing Arrow Lake for laptops, I think the overall supply for desktop CPUs will be constrained.
QuickSync is good, but again, it is not limited to the current gen Arrow Lake. So if I really just need this feature, I think I will just go with an older CPU that can get a lot cheaper than Arrow Lake.
Because supply is low, hence the sold out.
Yeah only 25 pieces of 285K came to Singapore. Very limited with many people having boards but no CPU.
Wow, that is a very low number. But like AMD, they are no longer in control of the supply since they are not the ones producing it. Lunar Lake probably took up the bulk of the production because it is the cheapest to manufacture and likely the one that sells the most with the best margins.
Exactly. It's well known TSMC production has largely been booked by Apple and AMD. I don't think TSMC had much excess capacity to cope with the numbers Intel wanted in the first place so I expect 285K to be relatively short in supply. Thing is it will still sell but I think even system integrators will have issues with supply. But honestly, I really doubt 285K and Z890 will live past 1 generation. Many enthusiasts are either keeping their 14th gen if there are no issues or jumping to 9800X3D. I'll be probably testing a 9800X3D once it's out to see if it's worth over my current 14900KS with 8600C38 rams. Mine has been working flawlessly so far.
Too expensive in USA.
