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A lot of people switched to remove work due to coronavirus and now they need a laptop, so the demand is extremely high for laptops and it's components. It's much easier to do almost any work on a laptop than on smartphone.

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The article (and presumably the parent comment) is talking about desktop CPUs. Laptop chips are generally soldered onto the motherboard, so you don't buy them separately.

Right, but if AMD need to produce these chips and more people are working from home, thus more people are potentially buying laptops then a cut of the available chips could potentially still be going into laptops?

Leaving less available chips for desktops. Additionally, I've heard that prebuilt desktop builders are also in high demand for the chips.

No, generally desktop chips and laptop chips are entirely different products. For example, none of the Zen 3 AMD desktop chips have integrated graphics, while all of the laptop ones do. And with the way semiconductor fabrication is done, I believe that the volume of chips manufactured was planned well in advance, and pivoting from making one to making the other cannot be done quickly.

> remove work

Typo of the day :D

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