@Ytterbium, Wayne_Chang, koob
Again... so when someone orders an acer notebook with amazon and the notebooks arent in stock anymore then you really await that all orders for intel celeron that came after that should stop until the acer notebook can be delivered? Because its fair?
The problems with b3 are a problem in itself. But there are no problems with the chip batches. So how the heck you await that b3 is shipping faster only because the chips arent shipped? Where do you get that connection from? I ordered chips because i know nothing really can go wrong. Its a proven concept. It only has to be created and shipped.... done. It has nothing to do with b3. And thats why i ordered them.
Regarding chips arent produced... did you miss that several wholesale buyers in china got tens of thousands of chips already? zefir is the only normal buyer that got one normal batch. So if those big buyers got their chips then our chips has to be produced already too. Because... yifu collected chip batch orders for 5 weeks, then he ordered at the foundry. All further ordered batches turned to "ordered" instantly. That means the chips werent already produced in foundry and the new chips could be put on the already existing order list. TSMC is only creating once because the biggest work they have with creating such chips is to change their working space to produce them. So its best for them to do all in one rush.
If you guys are right and those wholesale chips were ordered before and created before then yifu wouldnt have collected chip orders for 5 weeks. He would have moved those orders instantly to TSMC like he did after the order. That sounds to me like a pretty good indicator that our chips are already created.
By the way... TSMC isnt a small company... its nearly THE company for creating chips. So no, there is no big waiting time because they can only produce a small number of chips per time. The wait is only because its more effective to create more chips at once instead in more than one run.