Could someone explain to me why intel released the B365 chipset?

[ZeRedz]

A lot of people are saying it's due to the shortage of coffeelake(14nm) CPUs or something. Could someone explain to me the correlation between the chipset itself and the shortage? 

[Emanbaird]

As far as i am aware it will just be cheaper, which is fine for lower end stuff

[ZeRedz]

1 minute ago, Emanbaird said:

As far as i am aware it will just be cheaper, which is fine for lower end stuff

Yeah, but why did the shortage cause Intel to release a 22nm chipset motherboard?

[Arttu89]

In short, due to Intel having trouble with keeping up sufficient supply of the 14nm Coffeelake CPUs, they had to free up some manufacturing capacity and moved some of their chipset production off 14nm and back to 22nm thus creating the B365 chipset, which is kinda lika the B360 with some small feature changes along with being manufactured in the older 22nm proccess.

[Stefan Payne]

4 hours ago, ZeRedz said:

A lot of people are saying it's due to the shortage of coffeelake(14nm) CPUs or something. Could someone explain to me the correlation between the chipset itself and the shortage? 

Because they manufacture some chipset in 14nm as well.
And with the "new" ones, they went back to 22nm or so...