How did they get all the car companies to stop making cars? There ain’t no “chip shortage”, never was.
Oh no there was definitely a chip shortage. People in the industry saw that coming for over a decade. Supply has barely been able to meet demand for a while. Every time somebody built a new factory a new wave of “smart” appliances would jump demand up. Then you add supply chain issues from the lockdowns and boom chip shortage. It was always a when not an if on that. And it will happen again. We so many chips in so many things, and new tech discourages storage of old supply and causes constant retools.