Intel has announced new affordable motherboards for their Coffee Lake CPUs last month. This is after months of only having the top end Z370 chipset option for the mainstream desktop segment available. However according to DigiTimes, their sources within the motherboard industry is saying that the chip supplier’s 14nm process capacity is too tight. In turn, they have run out of supply for these affordable chipsets just after a month.

The H310 is the lowest-end and most affordable chipset in Intel’s 300-series line. However, manufacturers are now forced to adapt a more expensive B360 chipset option instead. Together with the entry-level H310, is the mainstream H370 and B360, as well as the enterprise Q360 and Q370 chipsets. With the exception of the flagship Z370 chipset which launched in Fall 2017, these 300-series chipsets were meant to boost motherboard sales from the usual Q1 slump.