AMD Ryzen Mobile Shortage Confirmed: HP Renoir Laptops Failed
The concern raised by small laptop maker XMG over the shortage of AMD processors has been offset to some extent by the company’s quarterly report, which reported a threefold increase in shipments of Renoir processors. And yet, even the largest laptop manufacturers are experiencing a shortage of AMD processors.
By the beginning of the school year, the demand for laptops is always growing, this year the pandemic has smeared this rise in previous months, but most market participants believe that demand for laptops will remain high until the end of this year. Interest in this type of product is confirmed by Intel, AMD, Apple, and NVIDIA, not to mention the many suppliers of components for the production of mobile PCs.
One of the readers turned to the AdoredTV resource with his story. After five weeks of waiting for an ordered HP laptop based on an AMD processor, the hapless customer received a notice from the store, in which he cited the inability to supply the desired computer model due to the manufacturer’s fault. As follows from the explanation provided by the store, laptop models of the X360 435 G7 and 445 G7 series, which use 7nm AMD Ryzen processors of the Renoir family, are in short supply. The supplier offers laptops based on Intel processors of similar performance as replacements. More expensive models of the Envy x360 and Omen series are still available to order without restrictions.
It cannot be ruled out that the situation will stabilize over time, since AMD itself has repeatedly emphasized the importance of the notebook segment for its own business, and HP Inc. remains one of the largest players in this market, which rival Intel simply has no moral right to ignore. Another thing is alarming: if the problems with the availability of AMD processors have arisen at the giant of the scale HP Inc., then small manufacturers will have it even more difficult.
