Ars Technica article: No end to chip shortages

Kiriakos-GR said:
I think that arstechnica this is now bunch of computer nerds playing cheap games with people minds.
There is not any chip shortages.
Production is up and running to catch up cars industry which was left behind.
Within 2022 new factory this is getting ready in Germany and a second in the USA.
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LukeTbk said:
Why I cannot buy a PS5 online then if there is not a situation in which something cannot be obtained in sufficient amount ? Why there is anything to catch up ? Why new factory has any relevance ?

The world making more chips than ever before does not mean there is no shortages if demand is even higher than that.
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Substrates are currently the bottleneck.
 
LukeTbk said:
Why I cannot buy a PS5 online then if there is not a situation in which something cannot be obtained in sufficient amount ?
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To put it simply, high demand. The PS5 in its first fiscal year has outsold the PS4 in its first fiscal year despite the chip shortages.
 
Krenum said:
Just wait until China invades Taiwan after the Olympics...

Its gonna get real bad.
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This is now an old dream.
AU + USA + UK they formed past month an fresh alliance.
TW now own F35 along other toys.

Greece formed new alliance with FR + USA three months ago.

AU castle this defends ASIA, Greek castle this defends South EU + East Arab sector
 
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Kiriakos-GR said:
This is now an old dream.
AU + USA + UK they formed past month an fresh alliance.
TW now own F35 along other toys.

Greece formed new alliance with FR + USA three months ago.

AU castle this defends ASIA, Greek castle this defends South EU + East Arab sector
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Looks like everyone has moved their chess pieces into place.
 
Denpepe said:
Yeah the Russians are about to invade Ukrain, seems he overlooked that one.
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Complete in person report about such maters, this will cost to your wallet 100 Euro.

Free of charge reminder: at least for the market of used computer parts, combined markets of France + Germany + Poland + Italy = many millions of people, they can supply other Europeans looking for i7 4~5 Gen and motherboards for the next 200 years.
For any dreamers out there expecting RTX3000 for cheap, for them chip shortages will remain for ever. 🙂
 
Denpepe said:
Yeah the Russians are about to invade Ukrain, seems he overlooked that one.
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Well, this is not good....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russi...epped-for-nuclear-war?source=articles&via=rss

Putin ordered two nuclear-capable long-range bombers to fly into European airspace this weekend, as they were dispatched to patrol Belarus. Just a week ago, Russia warned that it would redeploy intermediate-range nuclear weapons on its Western flank—in striking distance of central Europe—for the first time since they were banned in a 1987 treaty between presidents Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.

There have also been grim signs of things to come from the Russian government. A new national standard for “Urgent burial of corpses in peacetime and wartime” has been introduced by the government in recent months. It will come into force on Feb. 1, 2022, and specifies the burial in mass graves to be dug by bulldozers, disposing of as many as 1,000 bodies in a 24-hour time period. Bodies are to be placed “in four layers, either in bags, wooden coffins or zinc coffins, prepared in advance… and subsequently covered with dirt. Then the mass graves will be compacted with a bulldozer, filled with “a mineral binder” and equipped with “devices for the absorption and neutralization of radioactive, hazardous chemicals and biological agents formed during the decomposition of corpses.”


Ever seen "The Day After"? This is the exact same scenario in that movie, which oddly enough played a part in the Soviet Union & the US treaty in 1987...Maybe Putin should watch it.
 
Krenum said:
Putin ordered two nuclear-capable long-range bombers to fly into European airspace this weekend, as they were dispatched to patrol Belarus. Just a week ago, Russia warned that it would redeploy intermediate-range nuclear weapons on its Western flank—in striking distance of central Europe—for the first time since they were banned in a 1987 treaty between presidents Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.
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If Americans they are that open-minded, why they did not aloud to Russians to have their own missiles base in Cuba?
Oh no, Cuba this is very close to the USA, and this is bad news for the Americans.
Lets face facts, no one is happy having an enemy base within his borders.
 
Krenum said:
Well, this is not good....
https://www.thedailybeast.com/russi...epped-for-nuclear-war?source=articles&via=rss

Putin ordered two nuclear-capable long-range bombers to fly into European airspace this weekend, as they were dispatched to patrol Belarus. Just a week ago, Russia warned that it would redeploy intermediate-range nuclear weapons on its Western flank—in striking distance of central Europe—for the first time since they were banned in a 1987 treaty between presidents Ronald Reagan and Mikhail Gorbachev.

There have also been grim signs of things to come from the Russian government. A new national standard for “Urgent burial of corpses in peacetime and wartime” has been introduced by the government in recent months. It will come into force on Feb. 1, 2022, and specifies the burial in mass graves to be dug by bulldozers, disposing of as many as 1,000 bodies in a 24-hour time period. Bodies are to be placed “in four layers, either in bags, wooden coffins or zinc coffins, prepared in advance… and subsequently covered with dirt. Then the mass graves will be compacted with a bulldozer, filled with “a mineral binder” and equipped with “devices for the absorption and neutralization of radioactive, hazardous chemicals and biological agents formed during the decomposition of corpses.”


Ever seen "The Day After"? This is the exact same scenario in that movie, which oddly enough played a part in the Soviet Union & the US treaty in 1987...Maybe Putin should watch it.
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Putin seems to be either betting his presidency or mis-reading the situation in the US. Either way, not good for prospects for peace in Eastern Europe. I'm sure that the former Soviet satellite countries that are now part of NATO are conferring urgently, and the EU is going to forget about sanctions against Hungary and Poland right now. Putin once said that the breakup of the USSR was the greatest tragedy of the 20th century. Not two world wars, the Holocaust or other genocides. Putin might help rehabilitate Stalin's legacy, by comparison.
 
FrgMstr said:
Substrates are currently the bottleneck.
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... it's not just chips that are in short supply. Stupid passive parts like SMT resistors and capacitors are brutal to find in production quantities. One power supply part we use was typically purchased for $0.28, and our commodity people found a few thousand....for $37.00 each. I'm not kidding. We're not seeing any real relief until 2023 or later.
 
BlindedByScience said:
... it's not just chips that are in short supply. Stupid passive parts like SMT resistors and capacitors are brutal to find in production quantities. One power supply part we use was typically purchased for $0.28, and our commodity people found a few thousand....for $37.00 each. I'm not kidding. We're not seeing any real relief until 2023 or later.
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Automotive sector bid those parts up to ungodly rates once they figured out they had screwed up with their IC cancellations. You can read the bigger picture there...
 
FrgMstr said:
Automotive sector bid those parts up to ungodly rates once they figured out they had screwed up with their IC cancellations. You can read the bigger picture there...
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But a lot of companies have way overpurchased on the small stuff already as they saw that coming, and also as a way to hedge.
 
We buy extra as possible, but SMT parts have a shelf life in terms of solder ability. You can bake IC's to some degree, not very practical with 0402 and 0201 parts. Its a lousy situation, all the way.
 
Kiriakos-GR said:
If Americans they are that open-minded, why they did not aloud to Russians to have their own missiles base in Cuba?
Oh no, Cuba this is very close to the USA, and this is bad news for the Americans.
Lets face facts, no one is happy having an enemy base within his borders.
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I figure English isn't your first language but the Soviet Union collapsed a long time ago, Poland's borders aren't Russia's borders anymore. If we put nukes and Aegis Ashore in Poland it would not be in Putin's borders.
 
Wade88 said:
I figure English isn't your first language but the Soviet Union collapsed a long time ago, Poland's borders aren't Russia's borders anymore. If we put nukes and Aegis Ashore in Poland it would not be in Putin's borders.
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But he definitely would do something about it. The same way Pakistan did a 180 after joining the war on terrorism in 2006 after the US started courting Indian influence to rebuild Afghanistan, and went all in on funding the Taliban. This causes NATO to surge in reaction but the effort was mostly in vain due to the asymmetric way the Taliban fights. 14 years later Pakistan has its buffer state just like China has NK. Putting forces on Putin's borders will start a costly proxy war that will cause one side or the other to eventually quit and cry Uncle.
 
pippenainteasy said:
But he definitely would do something about it. The same way Pakistan did a 180 after joining the war on terrorism in 2006 after the US started courting Indian influence to rebuild Afghanistan, and went all in on funding the Taliban. This causes NATO to surge in reaction but the effort was mostly in vain due to the asymmetric way the Taliban fights. 14 years later Pakistan has its buffer state just like China has NK. Putting forces on Putin's borders will start a costly proxy war that will cause one side or the other to eventually quit and cry Uncle.
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Yes, the Russians lost the last proxy war fest so let's do it again...
 
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