There's a Centrino notebook shortage already

But Intel is apparently denying that Pentium M processors aren't yet in volume production, and claims that it's demand that's causing the shortage and not lack of supply.

The two, of course, are indissolubly linked.

The report claims that Samsung only had 500 units of its Sens X10 Centrino notebook for the mainland and it's sold them all already.

It is Samsung, apparently, that's claiming there's a shortage of the Pentium M chips. As well as Acer.

This is not beyond the realms of possibility. Intel has only just started producing the Pentium M chips and it will be distributing them in allocation mode to its favoured suppliers, whoever they are.

But likely to be Toshiba and Sony, rather than Samsung and Acer.µ

* MEANWHILE THERE'S a thread on Silicon Investor which asks a juicy question of Intel about the L2 cache on the Pentium M. Does it run at it full speed, the punters wonder?

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