A little tight???? "Our records indicate that you have purchased and received inventory for one or more of the Intel® System Control Hubs US15W, US15L, and UL11L products. Due to a technical sighting, Intel has currently placed this product on ship hold and is requesting our distributors place any existing inventory on sales hold as well"

Do you really think that this is a short supply when you can get x billion of them on one wafer.

Short supply = panic buy more likely.

Considering how little an Atom die is, Intel should have no problem producing a LOT of them in a relatively short time. The market may be experiencing shortages right now, as is often the case with hot new products, but I don't think it will last.

The Z-series might pose a problem, though, depending on how difficult and complex is the packaging.

Supply of atoms is easily provided. Orders accepted of type Si in volumes of multiples of approx 6.0221415 × 10^23. Impurities on request provided of type Ga, As, Al, Cu, P, S and other abundant rat poisons of choice within reason.