News Power Outage Prompts TSMC to Halt Production of Mature Process Nodes

[Admin]

A power outage in southern Taiwan prompted TSMC to halt some production of chips made using mature process nodes.

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[InvalidError]

Enthusiasts do need to worry about mature nodes: that's what a lot of support components like platform micro-controllers are still being made on. You can't make a GPU or motherboard without system monitoring, fan control, PWM controllers, audio, LAN and a bunch of other chips that don't require bleeding-edge process. Same goes for keyboards, mice, USB hubs, monitors and countless other peripherals.

 

[plateLunch]

Yeah. Hey. No blowing us off. My new gaming PC build for this year and my paycheck is dependent on my shipping product using a 2010 era microcontroller.

 

[usiname]

Enthusiasts do need to worry about mature nodes: that's what a lot of support components like platform micro-controllers are still being made on. You can't make a GPU or motherboard without system monitoring, fan control, PWM controllers, audio, LAN and a bunch of other chips that don't require bleeding-edge process. Same goes for keyboards, mice, USB hubs, monitors and countless other peripherals.

I don't see motherboards shortage so we are fine

 

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I don't see motherboards shortage so we are fine

While there may not be a major shortage, new releases are about $80 more expensive on average than they were two years ago except for ASRock who is way below everybody else.

 

[usiname]

While there may not be a major shortage, new releases are about $80 more expensive on average than they were two years ago except for ASRock who is way below everybody else.

This is not shortage, this is greed

 

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This is not shortage, this is greed

You can only be greedy when the supply is at least somewhat constrained, otherwise you end up with unsold stock as a liability.

 

[usiname]

You can only be greedy when the supply is at least somewhat constrained, otherwise you end up with unsold stock as a liability.

There are everywhere mobos in range 70-1000USD, everything in stock, where is your shortage? If there were any shortage or problem with manifacturing, you wouldnt see $70 mobos, stupid wi fi and other useless stuffs are not worth $300, this is only greed.

 

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There are everywhere mobos in range 70-1000USD, everything in stock, where is your shortage?

AMD hasn't launched a new chipset in nearly a year. Most people who wanted an A520/B550/X570 motherboard already got one, so availability and pricing of old stock has more to do with not letting inventory rot in warehouses than current chip shortages.

Intel's 500-series boards would be more representative of the current state of things and right now, I cannot get any of those locally.