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To: fightin kentuckian

So this chip shortage is due to China flexing its muscle? Haven’t followed it so I’m in the dark.


11 posted on 07/01/2021 8:34:34 AM PDT by stuck_in_new_orleans ( )
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To: stuck_in_new_orleans

“So this chip shortage is due to China flexing its muscle?”

Not really, China makes very few chips. They still don’t have the know-how for projects that complicated.

Almost all of them are coming from Taiwan, South Korea, and Japan. The problem is that building a new chip fab costs several billion dollars and takes several years. Demand increased faster than expected and there is now a persistent global shortage.


26 posted on 07/01/2021 9:12:04 AM PDT by Renfrew
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