Apple G5 chips 'in short supply'

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Apple may be facing greater difficulties than previously thought in sourcing chips to power its high-end personal computers.

Financial firm Prudential Equity Group reported this week that the availability of G5 processors for Apple could be "worse than anticipated", according to a report on Forbes.

These chips are supplied by IBM and used in the PowerMac G5. They will also power the forthcoming iMac G5. Apple had previously said that 1.8GHz and 2.0GHz G5 chips would be in short supply in July, due to manufacturing problems at IBM, but that availability would recover in August.

"We now believe that IBM may be having difficulty meeting its revised supply commitments," said Prudential Equity Group, which reportedly fears that these additional delays could impact on Apple's future earnings if the launch of the iMac G5 is delayed.

Apple and IBM had both not responded to requests for comment at the time of writing.

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Shortage of G5 chips must be the case because I ordered a dual 2.5 G5 on 7/9/04 with an estimated ship date of 7/30/04. On 7/29/04 they revised the ship date to 8/20/04. We'll see how they do with this date.

via Facebook 19 August, 2004 01:12
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I think it is complete BS for Apple to keep taking orders for items they can't fill.

I placed my order in June and still haven't gotten my G5... the next ship date is supposed to be tomorrow but I was told if they miss it they'll issue another ship date. Oh, gee, thanks for thinking of the customer and not jerking me around.

Also, I was told that repeated missed ship dates will not be compenstated.... they'd better think that one over.

And, the customer service (if you can call it that cause they don't know anything anyways) was rude and hung up on me. Now while I am very irate about not getting my computer I never raised my voice or used any inappropriate language. When I do get a hold of a supervisor all the can say is "the next ship date is [blah blah blah]." No one knows anything about where in line my computer is (remember, first come first serve), how many they've been able to ship so far, or anything else for that matter that I can't already get from the lame order status page on their website.

The need to realize that they're impacting their customers in more ways than just not sending the computer. It's now affecting my schooling and freelancing which basically equates to my livelyhood.

Thanks Apple

via Facebook 19 August, 2004 19:40
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