[blam]

Meet The One Chipmaker The Entire World Is Now Depending On

[Viking2002]

Well, time to pull that old Windows XP laptop out of mothballs.......

[Steely Tom]

Yet another “new normal.”

[Governor Dinwiddie]

Once we had a lot of fabs. IBM had fabs in Virginia and Vermont to name a couple I'm aware of. Intel, TI, AMD, Cypress, and at least a half dozen more were in the game. But they didn't keep pace with newer processes. And the pointy headed MBAs churned out by the universities just went abroad instead of building up and modernizing our own semiconductor industry.

As usual, we invent it, and other countries eat our lunch.

[familyop]

I don’t know how reliable this report is, but it might be related. Some U.S. vendors of other Chinese products were having a lot of difficulty getting shipments until about a month or two ago.

Major Cities in China’s Guangdong Province Hit by Resurgence of COVID-19 Despite Draconian Lockdown Measures
Epoch Times ^ | 06/21/2021 | Nicole Hao
https://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/3969812/posts
https://www.theepochtimes.com/major-cities-in-chinas-guangdong-hit-by-resurgence-of-covid-19-despite-draconian-lockdown-measures_3866700.html

“Business owners were frustrated because cargo ships aren’t allowed to enter or leave the harbors and products can’t be unloaded, including some perishable items.”

[LibertyWoman]

Why is there a shortage?

[Nateman]

Inflation will also continue to push prices higher too. On nearly everything.

[gattaca]

Read later

[central_va]

Another “benefit” of Free (fuk) trade. Make it her, do it now. Tariffs. the more tariffs.

[ChinaGotTheGoodsOnClinton]

I just found out yesterday that most gas stations here in northern Colorado Springs are out of gas.

I downloaded “GasBuddy” to see if it would locate stations that have gas but no such luck. It gives the price the stations would charge if they had gas.

Anyone know an app or other method to determine which stations are pumping gas near you?

Oh, and ‘Thank you Obama!”.