Interesting apparently the shortage of stock is due to the TSMC having difficulty with the new 16nm process. Any bleeding edge tech takes time to ramp up. Although I am worried the shortage of stock has caused some of the retailers to ump their prices considerably.
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The reality is all the government and college research facilities like NASA are #1 to get their batch. Also a lot of top dollar companies from around the world like Europe and Asia server farms are 1st too. They have to release some to the market to keep us happy, but the reality is the companies are first and 10% (made up #) of that batch goes to resellers.