drkohler said:
Did you read my previous posts about how mass manufacturing works? Stop distributing these "shortages because the dog ate my homework" rumours. It is exactly as I described above. At every moment in time, Sony exactly knows what chips go inside their products - beause those chips were ordered months (sometimes even years!) in advance. There is no "quickly move to XY nm". Again, this is NOT how mass manufacturing works. Sony had shipped exactly the number of PS3s as ordered for last fiscal year and Sony is going to ship exactly the number of PS3 that were ordered for this fy (whatever kind of RSX chip is inside). All the components, down to the last screw, for this fy had been ordered sometimes last year. There is no "incentive" involved in mass manufacturing. It is follow "standard procedure as every year" - unless you want your manufacturing costs go through the roof. This is the exact reason Nintendo went through their draught period without manufacturing a single Wii more than planned in their fy plan. So again in one simple sentence: "If your fy plan underestimated the demand - you don't get enough stock and you get problems". |
Its simple really. Just because the chips were ordered doesn't mean they were delivered. It happens all the time in the semi-conductor business, theres nothing surprising about it.
Tease.
