{"id":336,"date":"2019-04-04T10:09:35","date_gmt":"2019-04-04T14:09:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.heliotropicsystems.com\/blog\/?p=336"},"modified":"2019-04-04T10:10:50","modified_gmt":"2019-04-04T14:10:50","slug":"thanks-intel-youve-helped-make-a-mess-of-my-windows-10-rollout","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.heliotropicsystems.com\/blog\/index.php\/thanks-intel-youve-helped-make-a-mess-of-my-windows-10-rollout\/","title":{"rendered":"Thanks Intel, You\u2019ve Helped Make a Mess of My Windows 10 Rollout…"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

There are days when I simply don\u2019t have the time to read all of the news emails that appear in Outlook, or in the half-dozen computer magazines I subscribe to. In this case, I guess I should have, because I missed a tiny story that turned out to be big news. (A lesson taught by Mrs. Jurow, when I was a fifth-grader at Ogden Elementary School in Valley Stream, NY.) Intel reported in late September 2018 there were \u201cissues\u201d regarding its ability to supply new eighth-generation chips \u2014 called Coffee Lake \u2014 to computer manufacturers (OEMs). You can read the announcement here: https:\/\/newsroom.intel.com\/news-releases\/supply-update\/<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Those eighth-generation chips were the ones I was counting on to be in your new Windows 10 computers. Sad to say, that ain\u2019t gonna happen very soon.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

There is currently a \u201chold\u201d on all those new Coffee Lake-based desktops and laptops. They are not in the pipeline from any of the major OEMs (e.g., Lenovo, Dell, or HP). To meet a higher demand for new computers, they are continuing to produce models with the existing seventh-generation chips (called Kaby Lake). Because of this unexpected need to switch gears at the end of 2018, shipments of all new computers are also being delayed.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

How long is the delay? Higher-end models are showing a two to three month lag. In one specific case, the mid-range models I wanted to order as replacements for a client on February 12 (when I originally wrote this article) have an estimated March 25 delivery date \u2014 six weeks.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Here\u2019s what this means for you. I am going to have to alter my timeline of deployment to include an additional six to eight weeks. That means I\u2019ll be contacting you sooner than I had originally planned, and that you\u2019ll probably have to wait longer to receive your new computer.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

If there is any change in the status of this debacle, I will let you know as soon as possible. I\u2019ll be able to do that because I now have a Google email alert for all things related to Intel Coffee Lake chip status.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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