Slow news day so...

'World's unluckiest burglars' arrested after pocket-dialling police during robbery

https://www.ctvnews.ca/mobile/world/world-s-unluckiest-burglars-arrested-after-pocket-dialling-police-during-robbery-1.5258695

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So much for building my PC this weekend. My PSU hasn't been delivered. When I ordered it said 3-5 days, now after 6 days I don't even have a shipping date. I'll probably cancel the order and buy a different PSU which just became available.

Update: Canceled my order for the Dark Power Pro 12 and bought the AX850 instead.

The current PSU stock levels are terrible I had all my parts ready to build for 2 weeks before I could find a 600-750w SFX PSU, Across that time period I could of bought a dozen 3080/3070's that I was getting pinged for in stock cards. So yeah for me finding a PSU was harder than the new 3000 Series GPU's.

New data from Mindfactory, and AMD is really killing it, having doubled the sales year-over-year in December:

https://www.extremetech.com/computing/318975-amds-retail-market-share-continues-to-surge-based-on-european-reseller-data

One thing to not is that Ryzen 5000, which only made up about 30% of the sales in November, now stands at close to 50% already. Curiously, despite the large increase in Ryzen 5000 sales, the 5900X actually sold less than the month before, with the 5950X and 5800X being the biggest winners here.

Meanwhile, Intel is really in a dire position, needing to fight over the price to compete, and it shows: The median price of Intel chips crashed down from formerly over 300€ to now under 250€, all while AMD went up 100€ from ~220€ to 318€, surpassing Intel for the first time. At least for Intel the pricedrop allowed them to stabilize their market share, though it also means that the gap by revenue is now really humungous:

To infinity, and beyond!

I'm pretty sure they were simply not prepared to the 1-2-3 combination being the Zen 3, Ampere and Big Navi launches coming pretty much all at the exact same time and them being overwhelmingly better than what existed before and thus have huge amounts of demand. AMD and NVidia got totally overwhelmed, and now is the time for the other hardware products to feel the crunch as their stocks start to dwindle, too.

It sucks to have such problems. I hop the Corsair unit arrives soon.

Very informative but anecdotal since this comes just from one store/retailer from one country. We'll see what happens when Intel launches its next processors in... March?

The 5900X is in a somewhat odd position given that both the 5800X and 5950X feature full chiplets while the 5900X comes with a mix of two. Besides, 8 cores/16 threads will be more than enough for the time being.

If they were not prepared then it's a clear example of bad planning. It's not just the new GPUs and CPUs, but there's also the launch of the new consoles. It was pretty obvious that a lot of gamers would change or upgrade their PCs to be able to meet the new min. or recomended requirements of the new games.

It's not bad planning, it's a calculated risk. The worst case scenario for any retailer is having too much stock, so they'll always err on the side of caution and plan conservatively. No matter how obvious the spike in demand is, it's always only temporary.

Compare it with big game launches. You will never see a company stocking up on server capacity for launch because they already know that even if the servers can't handle it, it will only be temporary.

Not really surprising that 5000 series is doing so well as it performs better in majority of the games and has the platform advantage with pci-e 4.0. The only times I was able to recommend Intel was during some of the pretty sweet sales they were having where you could get an i9 10850k for the price of a 5800X. That and the fact that Intel was in stock. But outside of there, AMD cpus were the go to!

Also Nvidia press event on January 12th 9AM PST

NVIDIA confirms it will showcase GeForce RTX 30 mobile GPUs on January 12

https://videocardz.com/newz/nvidia-confirms-it-will-showcase-geforce-rtx-30-mobile-gpus-on-january-12

AMD Ryzen 9 5900 and Ryzen 7 5800 non-XT

https://videocardz.com/newz/amd-ryzen-9-5900-and-ryzen-7-5800-non-xt-clock-speeds-revealed

Spoiler: 100mhz less boost clocks

Am recommending Intel to everyone. They have this big feature of being in stock. Although at times like this, i can't recommend pc gaming to anyone. If they need the pc for productivity sure. Otherwise buy a PS5/XBone for $900 CAD.

Yeah... Just going to wait my next upgrade cycle out.