An article published by Digitimes claims that the shortage will be severe enough that Intel will not be able to "satisfy downstream PC vendors' strong demand."
Smith said that the 22 nm yield curve is "consistent with expectations" and processor production is ramped in three different fabs. Intel expects greater production volume than with 32 nm as that process was only scaled up from two fabs initially. However, the company admitted that the launch of Ivy Bridge was delayed by three weeks "to make sure that there was enough inventory in the pipeline." In terms of supply, CEO Paul Otellini added that the first batch of Ivy bridge processors are only quad-cores and the "bulk of those are going into desktops."
Otellini noted that Ivy Bridge will be Intel's "fastest ramping product ever, comprising nearly 1/4 of our microprocessor volume in Q2 alone and crossing over 50% of [Intel's] microprocessor shipments this fall."
