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Something's got to five at some point here. Everything from computers to phones to cash registers to traffic signals need these components and are costing more due to the shortages, despite production remaining high.
The world is going to have to decide if it is worth putting the entire modern world on a pricing hold to funnel all the memory into speculative markets.
The voting is done with money, and the money is in a few hands which right now say "yes, yes it is". I don't think this will last forever, though. Their free cash flow won't allow it, and they are notoriously fickle.
It's fine, the free market has always worked in our best interest.
You remind me of this dog I knew. 😂
funny hting is AI kinda makes Management Useless.
until AI bubble busts, i dont see anything going down anytime soon. most tech companies have been peddling, and went all in with AI
I wonder how they expect to build all these data centers with the supply chain they're collapsing. 😅
What about the literally everything else I mentioned though? Those semiconductors are in everything, not just personal computers and gaming consoles.
I. Am. Not. Talking. About. Personal. Computers.
I am talking about electronic NON-COMPUTER devices that use computer CHIPS.
They are not going to recycle an old graphics card to build a weather radar, and it doesn't matter how fast computers were 10 years ago when building a new elevator.
I'm saying that every modern everything needs those chips and they're using them only for one industry, and every other industry, including but not limited to computers, is heavily impacted by that.
This is a text medium, so yelling is literally impossible, though I did add extra punctuation to draw attention to the same point I have been making in every post in this thread that does not seem to have been heard despite being stated very plainly. Sorry if that reads as yelling, but it is meant as emphasis on a repeatedly missed point.
On the subject of the article's contents, I am aware of its subject matter, and was making a directly adjacent point to the problem they are detailing about PCs, as one often does when engaging in conversation, rather than, say, writing an article summary. This is why I was careful to specify that I was talking about the broader electronics industry and their adjacent industries, which today encompasses many other products and supply chains beyond the obvious, because semiconductors and, yes, things made of semiconductors like memory, are present in many, many, places people don't think of.
All of those things becoming more expensive or unavailable has the potential to slow or halt those and other industries, even ones whose products contain no electronics whatsoever. If every electronic component between Hong Kong and London costs more, a Londoner couldn't buy so much as underpants without paying for that a dozen times because every single step of getting that underwear designed, woven, packaged, shipped, and put onto his ass costs way more or has to be done some old-fashioned slower way because some electronic gizmo is cost prohibitive or can no longer be produced.
So, in summary, the article raises alarms about the PC industry, and I am expanding the conversation to point out that PCs are merely the first and most obvious casualty of this market consolidation and resource monopolization, and discussion on this matter would be more constructive to consider the potential harms to broader society and its overall technology dependence, rather than just "Oh no, the PlayCubeBox 10,000,000 is going to cost more now!" It is quite OK to add your own context when talking about the news.