Keep your present vehicle well maintained.
Does this mean my 5g microwave and refrigerator will have to wait? /s
I have a small stock of various ARM SOCs.
Got a feeler from the supplier asking if I would perhaps
part with them, or a few.
Things must really be tough if my meager collection is coveted.
Just another planned disruption to bring down this country.
Stupido.
The term ‘Chip’ covers so much product. No one company makes a product called ‘The Chip’
Is it a silicon shortage? Is it some other raw material that is in short supply?
How dumb is our world?
This is what we get for that idiotic “Just In Time” methodology.
Translation: We’re keeping the phony shortage going as long as we can to keep prices high.
Let all the chips be made outside our nation...
What could go wrong?
At least the House got two Trump impeachment votes in.
At least Mitch and Paul helped stonewall Trump’s agenda.
And so it goes...
What? A semi-sweet chip shortage?
I guess it’ll be oatmeal raisin cookies for the foreseeable future!
Oh, never mind...
car companies cut their own throat
with useless electronic bs
I just did a brake job (including rotors) and brake fluid change. Need to do a transmission service, have the parts and fluid, have been putting it off. Need to go ahead and git ‘er done in the next couple weeks.
Also need to do oil and air filter on wifey’s ride.
This impacts not only auto manufacturers, but light and heavy manufacturing, which also rely heavily on a variety of chips to drive related equipment. Think harvesting machines or steel fabricators...
In the top ten of idiot moves by Zero, gifting chip technology and incentivizing moves of chip manufacturers to China is one of the worst.
There’s definitely a shortage of chips NOT Made In China....
Why? Why is no one forcing these talking heads to be specific? It’s like saying high lumber prices are due to a lack of trees, which is BS, there are as many trees as a year ago. Same for semis.
Something like “putting all your eggs in one basket” comes to mind.
Chip factories would be infrastructure...
So my old electronics, with their chips, will be worth millions?
Intel, SK Hynix, and Global Foundries are all breaking ground on new fabs this year. The problem is that it takes several years to build a modern clean room and stock it with the proper equipment and qualify the processes. All fabs are operating at high utilization now because the equipment and material is so expensive that this is required to be competative. There is not spare capacity that can just be turned on when more demand rises.
Hey look on the bright side. When the Chicoms detonate a nuke over our country and fry every piece of electronics we will be back in the 1800’s with horses. Horses don’t require chips to drive. Invest in hay bales.