[namlem]

One, chipmakers are indeed building new factories to increase production of chips, so your entire premise is incorrect. Two, the people criticizing the scalpers are wrong. NVIDIA and AMD were simply generous enough to not raise the price of their products even though they could have, demand was high enough to justify it. Scalping GPUs is fair game. Three, the number of houses being bought by investment firms is negligible. It's not having a significant effect on prices. It's the land use restrictions that make building housing difficult or impossible that are the problem. Particularly those that restrict multifamily housing.