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Why are they buying before release? And why can't pther consumers do that?

• dathinab 3y ago
  Because they product product of which that CPU is a fundamental part of the supply chain. So they have at least initial contract for supply before they even start designing this (mostly work station) products (which often involve e.g. custom motherboards). I.e. not only are they buying before release, they _need_ supply guarantees long long before release. The customer can't do that for multiple reasons. - They haven't signed a NDA contract nor are they in direct contact with first party sells personal so when it's time to early order they don't even know it exist. - They buy in quantities of 1,2 maybe 10 instead of multiples of thousands (initial charge) with follow up guarantees. E.g. if you look at server CPUs you will see 1kU prices, because this CPUs are sold only (by AMD or Intel directly) in multiples of 1000 units. If you (or lets say a PC retailer) do buy multiple thousand thread ripper CPUs at once and are willing to enter a contract for this sells long before they are sold (which likely involves an initial % of the price as down payment) you probably could get them early one. Through you would still be competing with DELL and similar for limited supply so you might still have a hard time to get the very first charge. And you also might have some problem getting compatible motherboards as many ORMs produce their own.