I know this is no comparison to what food means to the well being of people, but this semiconductor shortage is becoming a big problem regardless of what the fucking pinkos in the media are stating. It's not the big companies we all know and despise that seem to be struggling ... many small to midsized companies are facing challenges getting parts that were cheap and easy to get.

What's also amazing is that it seems that the parts in highest demand are available in decent quantities via chip brokers ... in China! One device I use constantly on small, niche kinds of projects is typically $8 in low quantities. The only place I can find them are via Chinese brokers ... I've seen them as high as $130. The lowest I saw was $48 ... and I highly doubt they're new ones.

Should this continue for a few more months, the US auto industry is going to implode. Good defense companies (not the giants that are corrupt to the core) are going to fail. Even many companies that produce home appliances are going to fail ... all because we depend on the Chinese for chip fabrication.

If people could see the shelves of semiconductor stores, they'd see what grocery stores in the USSR looked like on a bad day. These excuses the media are spewing are flat out wrong too ... there is literally a massive cut in supply ... this shortage has absolutely nothing to do with "ramping back up after COVID".

All very noticeable, and I don't think people are willing to tolerate much of it.