The current hard drive shortages caused by the flooding of plants in Thailand will cut into the PC shipment numbers in the first quarter of 2012, according to a new research report. More...

Western Digital has announced it has resumed production of hard drives in one of its Thailand plants after the building was shut down for a number of weeks due to flooding in that country. More...

AppleInsider reports they have contacted ten stores and after just a week of availability, all are sold out of the iPad Wi-Fi + 3G models. This coincides with a current wait time of 5 -... More...

Although it is not long since Intel launched its 45nm E8000 series CPUs, shortages have already been observed in the Taiwan channel. The lack of supply has spurred prices to increase by over 20%, prompting... More...

Fourth-quarter motherboard shipments from Taiwan motherboard makers might be affected by a shortage of Intel 865- and 845-series core-logic chipsets, according to sources at Taiwan motherboard makers. Efforts by Intel to force the PC industry... More...

Sources within the graphic industry confirmed that delays of high end graphics cards are being heavily affected by a shortage of high clocked GDDR 3 memory. ATI won't even talk about the X800XT PE and... More...

A surge in demand for Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) Athlon processors has caused a supply shortage in the channels in Taiwan, China and Europe, and this may undermine AMD's opportunity to boost its market share,... More...

AN ANALYST AT Citigroup Smith Barney claimed that Advanced Micro Devices wasn't able to deliver enough shipments of Athlon 64s in its fourth quarter. According to reports, that was due to "manufacturing problems", and Smith... More...

INCREASED DEMAND and lack of supply are putting pressure on LCD panels and that's likely to continue well into next year, according to Samsung, one of the monitor giants. And that's good news for the... More...

A VERY no, extremely reliable source explains that there is a drought of LCD monitors in the channel and there seems to be no obvious mirage at the end of the tunnel. This is apparently... More...

WHETHER IT'S A RESULT of LCD panel makers turning off the taps to increase their profits or a general surge in demand, it appears that there's a big shortage of 15-inch screens. A report in... More...

Global momentum is growing for a new address system, known as IPv6, which promises to vastly expand the pool of unique numbers available for connecting PCs and other devices to the Net. The standard is... More...

RESELLERS AND DISTRIBUTORS say that there's a chronic shortage of some ATI technology as the firm waits for its chip manufacturer to step up the volumes. ATI appears to be the victim of its own... More...

THERE MAY BE PLENTY of AMD Opteron microprocessors around but getting hold of motherboards to plug them into is a different matter altogether. Resellers from North America, from Europe and from Asia have all written... More...

Intel is having problems supplying customers with its newly announced 533MHz frontside bus, 2.8GHz Xeon processors because of a shortage of "supplier raw materials", we learn. Resellers trying to obtain the chip have been... More...

Suppliers of ATI Radeon 8500s appear to be experiencing problems delivering 275/275 to the UK marketplace. According to readers attempting to buy retail ATI Radeon 8500 packs, quite a few online retailers are... More...

Intel can't keep up with the Xmas rush Bumper period for PC vendors scuppered by short chip supplies... Intel has reported it could leave computer vendors short on Pentium 4... More...