Quote Originally Posted by az3579 View Post
Nuts because of 1) Semiconductor shortages, 2) Cryptominers, and 3) Scalpers. #2 and #3 really, royally piss me off. I've been trying to buy an RTX 3080 at the price it's supposed to be since November and have been unsuccessful because all these a-holes and their damned bots buying up all stock as soon as it's posted.
If you ignore the usual Linus YouTube antics, I think he did a good job describing the silicon situation.

https://youtu.be/3A4yk-P5ukY


My dads been a PCB designer in Silicon Valley for 30 years. Hasn’t seen supply constrictions like this before.


The weirdest thing to me is how much this is impacting the automotive industry. You don’t normally think of them as silicon consumers, but every damn thing in a car these days is CPU controlled.