[blam]

Used car prices are already up 50% over the last year.

[Skywise]

But computer sales were and are not “up” by any large numbers. And any “remote” employee already had a PC at their desk that they could take home for the shutdown.

I call BS. I think this is a quiet Cold War maneuver from China myself.

[Nateman]

Three months to make a chip. Six months to make the factory which makes the chip. 15$ billion to make the factory. The upgrades will be over soon though. The state of the art is down to 3 nano meters. The width of a Silicon atom is .2 nm. That means the paths are 15 silicon atoms wide. Not much more room at the bottom anymore.

Obviously this is the ultimate technology trap. Only 3 companies are big enough to compete in this market at this level. Some better way of making the computers we use needs to be invented.

[Mariner]

Increased price is the only long term solution to shortage.

Everything will go up substantially.

Everything.

Substantially.

[indthkr]

"Used car prices are already up 50% over the last year."

Maybe automakers should take a hint and stop filling their cars with so much electronic S#1t..

[PAR35]

It now appears to be mulling a more advanced 3 nanometer plant

There is very little real need for a 3 nanometer chip. With cellphones getting bigger, and most laptops spending their lives plugged into the wall, how small and light do most folks really need?

[Zathras]

Pat is the best CEO since Paul O.
He was the lead architect on the 486.
Hopefully he will dump the diversity nonsense and project in-fighting that crippled Intel and they can get back normal.