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by ssl-3
20 hours ago
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It is strange, but it's not any stranger than any other time of relative scarcity. We just aren't making enough stuff to keep up with demand. This kind of thing has happened before. Some computer-oriented highlights from the memory hole: An epoxy plant burned in 1993 that had supplied ~60% of that stuff for semiconductor packaging which caused widespread issues, there were aspects of RAM shortages in middle 90s (mostly because Windows adoption increased demand), we had Thailand floods that screwed up hard drive production, we had the crypto boom affecting GPUs in a big way from ~2016 to ~2022. There were covid-era chip shortages (which had been rationally predicted years before the covid scramble) while the Chia crypto bubble also ate up storage devices around that time. It sucks for consumers (read: buyers) when this stuff happens, but it's been pretty normal for a really long time. The current shortage is due to hugely-increased demand in the datacenter space and that's a new problem, but it's just one in a long list of problems that had been new when they surfaced. :) --- Anyway, yeah: When prices are high, it becomes time to go through the pile of hardware and sell some stuff. |
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