[George from New England]

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?

[blam]

"How dumb is our world?"

I'm a retired chip maker, started in 1967 when there were no computers. Over the years my 'language' of what I do/did changed with the IQ of the population.

Today, I just say "I made computer chips", it's what people understand.

[blueplum]

nope not a silicon shortage just the CCP deciding that they needed their chips for more of their own cheap phones, their own vehicles and their own electronics, to sell to 40 odd ‘asian’ nations and they’ll get around to foreign orders when they get around to it. Qualcomm and Apple are players in that game.

Add in the US only producing 12% of the world semiconductor supply, and a mid-March fire in the Japan-based Renesas factory that produces 1/3 of vehicle microcontroller chips worldwide, and there you are.

[Lazamataz]

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?

All chips. All semiconductor electronic chips.