Whatever supply issues AMD has, I can still get their chips at or below MSRP from a number of vendors. The latest generation of Intel chips, on the other hand, are hard to find and selling at a significant premium where they are available.

That's not unique to AMD. Intel also goes through periods of supply issues.

They've even had processors that basically only shipped on paper.

Yeah, like good luck trying to source a 9900KS for anywhere near MSRP, which was just a polished revised 9900K so Intel could still technically claim the “gaming crown” from AMD.

Have you tried to get your hands on any of the Intel HEDT parts? There's little to no supply and the supply that does exist is heavily marked up. 3950Xs and Threadrippers are in stock everywhere.

AMD’s supply issues have improved significantly since Apple is moving from 7nm to 5nm this year. AMD is now TSMC’s top 7nm customer.

https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1258393158766886913 https://twitter.com/chiakokhua/status/1258393160784330754

Intel ran out of 9th gen chips started fishing Quality Control reject chips out of the trash and selling them as F chips (9100F etc), which are chips that failed GPU quality controls and so got GPU disabled. credit for using honest label - F for F grade GPU.