It's going to be hilarious when the 10nm SuperFin parts come out and beats 5900 series -- before the 5900 hits general availability. TSMC's capacity on the 7nm node must be a disaster.
*checks GUTB lore*
Yup, checks out. So this is clearly
an alt account, right?
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Anyway, back to availability. You've been banned for like... decades? Let me get you up to date.
According to mindfactory.de, there has been a 33% increase in sales of AMD's N7 chips from April 2020 (previous peak) compared to November 2020 (post-Zen 3 release).
That, combined with the Radeon 6000 series release, PS5 release, XSX release, prepping Cezanne for laptops which have to be shipped to OEMs in advance, and EPYC Milan spin-up, and you can imagine that N7 wafers are in short supply.
Demand has far out-stripped supply for these N7 chips. Yes, supply widened -- but remains constrained by wafer production. And yet they're still selling more N7 chips by a substantial percentage compared to the Zen 2 release and compared to just before Zen 3 release. And Zen 3 chips sold in December 2020 is about the same as number of Zen 2 chips sold in July 2019 or August 2019.
As for the 5900X specifically, it comprises over 10% of sales as of December 2020. Where there were 10,000 Zen 3 chips sold in that month, just over 1,000 of them were 5900X. In fact, in December 2020, more 5900Xs were sold than 10400F, 10700K, or any other Intel chip.