• mechoman444@lemmy.world
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    18 hours ago

    There is no chip shortage. There are plenty of chips they’re just not being sold to consumers.

    This is an important distinction.

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      16 hours ago

      Shortage means supply doesnt meet demands, which is true. AI giants are gobbling up the available supply leaving us lower paying customers without any

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        8 hours ago

        Once again there is no shortage. My local microcenter center has hundreds of bundles in stock. They’re just super expensive because posts like this keep saying there’s a shortage.

        There is no ram shortage. There was never a ram shortage.

        One company decided to not sell consumer ram anymore and the collective world lost their minds.

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          7 hours ago

          That’s a very narrow slice of a supply chain to be using it as a basis for conclusions like that.

          I don’t disagree that the “shortage” is artificial, i’m just saying that your local store having stock and raising prices isn’t a good basis for determining overall supply chain health.

          Like looking out your window and seeing rain, so obviously it must be raining everywhere.