https://www.techpowerup.com/296261/valve-confirms-steam-deck-weekly-manufacturing-more-than-doubled
 
Valve, handlers of the world's most popular digital games store and manufacturers of the Steam Deck, have announced that they've been able to more than double weekly production of the handheld console. Due to the production "picking up", as Valve says it, the company expects to double the number of handhelds shipped each week. This is especially good news for users that were expecting to receive their devices in the 3Q - shipments for these particular orders will begin on June 30th.

Valve doesn't make it clear what exactly was bottlenecking production. Manufacturing and logistics have been showing signs of normalization following a couple of years with snag after snag due to the COVID-19 pandemic and the recent war in Ukraine. Overwhelming demand for graphics chips across the product spectrum may have pushed Valve to accept a smaller pie of AMD chips than the company would like to, and might be one of the reasons the company was forced to extend deliveries of pre-orders for the device.
 
At the same time, a number of components experienced bottlenecks, overwhelming demand, and a price crunch following lowered supply, including power regulating chips and even some battery-related materials, so the issue might not be entirely related to the APU itself - as much as AMD has had its hands full - for a while - with providing chips not only for its discrete cards, but also for the latest-generation consoles. All in all, this is great news for Steam Deck users in Valve's waitlist, as their order could be shipped that much faster.
 
Glad to see that Valve will be able to deliver more Steam deck devices for those people who have been waiting.