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Shortage of Intel Laptop Chipsets

Posted by samzenpus on from the made-anywhere-but-here dept.

EvilTwinSkippy writes "Taiwanese notebook vendors are reporting a short supply of Intel CPU chipsets for laptops. This includes the popular Centrino line. In case you didn't know most "name brand" laptops like Dell, HP, and even Apple are actually manufactured by OEM's in Taiwan, Mainland China, and Korea."

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  1. That's why you don't use Intel Chips by ilyanep · · Score: 3, Insightful

    This shows that AMD is doing way better than Intel. Doesn't AMD make mobile processor chips? If not, they should! AMD's chips have always run faster at the same rated speeds (don't ask me how that works). That's why a game's requirements may say "1 Ghz Pentium 4 or 800 Mhz AMD Athlon" , etc.

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    1. Re:That's why you don't use Intel Chips by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 1, Insightful

      Probably because an AMD would melt through the case, throught your leg, the floor, all the way to the earth's core, and it would probably raise the temperature of that a few degrees. I'm sorry, man. I just can't stop making fun of them, and that might be because I still consider it a cheap Intel knockoff.

  2. Cupertino, CA by arashiakari · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Apple laptops like my iBook are designed in the USA by best-of-field engineers, which makes all the difference in the world. They don't go to Taiwan and see what some company there has put together as and order a million units... which is pretty much what everyone but IBM and Fujitsu do.

    Don't lament that the machine and assembly line labor is done in nations with developing economies - it means our high tech equipment is that much cheaper for us... so we buy more and attain that much more of a productivity advantage.

    1. Re:Cupertino, CA by sokoban · · Score: 3, Insightful

      I don't see why it is so shocking that Apple doesn't design their computers from the ground up. They don't design the cpus, memory controllers, ethernet controllers, and the like. I would say that apple really does little more than lay down specs, exterior design, and a few other things. Are they heavily involved with what quantas designs for them? Certainly. Apple is not a semiconductor company any more than Quanta is based out of 1 Infinite Loop.

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  3. Taiwan != developing economy by Glowing+Fish · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Intel (for example) has its headquarters in Portland, Oregon where I live. I've been walking around Portland today, and I seem to not have noticed any bullet trains. Also, there are still these coin operated pay phones. The traffic lights don't even tell you how much longer you have to cross the street. 7-11s don't have doors that slide automatically. Not even half of people have broadband! And if I was to take a bus ride for 200 miles, I wouldn't get my own easy chair and television set, for ten dollars. Also, Portland doesn't have the tallest skyscraper in the world.

    Taiwan is perhaps not the most developed economy in the world, but it is hardly a "developing" economy. In some things, they are behind us, in some things they are about the same, and in some things, they are way ahead. Their croissants are certainly good and cheap.

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  4. Re:Uhh... by timeOday · · Score: 3, Insightful
    Wait I thought they were made by rosie the riveter here in the good ole USA.
    Wow, the idea that the US could manufacture anything has literally become a joke.