Atom processors still in short supply?

It's been mostly hugs and cupcakes for Intel's Atom processors lately -- they're apparently selling like hotcakes, and they're the stars of the Intel Developer Conference this week. But although Intel was confidently predicting that supply would meet demand by next month, it sounds like Atoms might still be hard to come by -- PC World quotes an unnamed ASUS exec as saying there's a "serious shortage" of the chips, leading the PC manufacturer to turn to Celeron chips to meet demand. Intel reps are sticking to the party line and saying that the supply issue will be resolved by the end of the third quarter, but we'll see how it goes -- something tells us ASUS isn't helping itself out too much by cranking out an endless string of Atom-based Eee PCs, either.

[who? @ Aug 21st 2008 8:08PM]

What a surprise.

[eiki @ Aug 21st 2008 8:16PM]

your mother had a surprise

[Dan Halen @ Aug 21st 2008 9:18PM]

lol

[JAmerican @ Aug 21st 2008 8:13PM]

I got my ATOMed up EEE 1000H so I'm fine :).

[Rubicon @ Aug 21st 2008 8:15PM]

why?

[telepheedian @ Aug 21st 2008 8:28PM]

Heh, just got my 1000h yesterday, also seems that NewEgg removed the order limit. Whatever their problem is, it sure isn't hitting the consumer.

[Adam @ Aug 21st 2008 8:35PM]

that's because Apple has gobbled them all up!

[pball_inuyaha @ Aug 21st 2008 8:52PM]

does anyone ever wonder if companies aren't trying their hardest to meet demand, cause it seems popular items that are in short supply get lots of news thus more publicity and more popularity.

[█▄ █▄█ ▄█▀ █■█ @ Aug 21st 2008 9:07PM]

I guess all Chinese are working in the Olympics,

[pball_inuyaha @ Aug 21st 2008 10:54PM]

funny man

[peter @ Aug 21st 2008 9:09PM]

I just ordered 50 atom embedded motherboards for my company no shortage on the small order side o.O

[bebop @ Aug 21st 2008 9:17PM]

It's not how many models there are, its how many are sold.

Intel "can really hose this stuff out" apparently. Sounds good to me.

[Motorola 3G Victim @ Aug 21st 2008 11:01PM]

Ms. Patel obviously couldn't be bothered to conduct research about Intel's allocation policies. The reason ASUS is pumping out Atom powered anything boxes is because your next quarters allocation is based on previous performance. Intel rewards those that move the most product by giving them more product than those that don't.

So people that sit around saying "Where's my cute fuzzy Atomed up OQO" OQO is sitting around cringing that the Atom supply situation has them locked out and no one will buy a non-Atom OQO now.

So ASUS is shipping Atom powered anything they can get out the door before Q3 ends so they can get a bigger allocation of the gotta have chip for xmas.

[Nilay Patel @ Aug 22nd 2008 1:14AM]

And you obviously couldn't be bothered to conduct research into the fact that I am very much a Mr. Patel. Nice work.

[Crazysamz @ Aug 21st 2008 11:53PM]

I just got my eee 1000 yesterday so I'm glad I got it while I still can. As for the ssd inside of it, the 32gb makes it slow as balls for an os, so the atom probably makes no difference for me until I move vista to the 8GB ssd included (it's split into 2 separate ssd's)

[keane.K @ Aug 22nd 2008 1:30AM]

Where is the NANO?