While anyone reading this will know it’s been hard to find a PS5 lately, many other markets are also in short supply, thanks to a global “crisis” affecting semiconductor chip supplies to, well, everything that she uses. And that’s one a lot of of stuff.
Like The Guardian report, while chip supplies should improve now that we’re months away from some of the worst Covid lockdowns and distribution disruptions, worse due to market changes (we bought many more computers and TVs and consoles while stuck at home) and a huge influx of new products using them, putting even more pressure on the supply chain.
The shortage of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X is just the tip of the iceberg. Major phone launches from companies like Apple and Samsung have been delayed, new graphics cards are still hard to come by, and carmakers around the world are scaling back production or piling unfinished cars in parking lots while they wait for the chips to provide power. their software systems.
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“Chips are everything,” said tech analyst Neil Campling The Guardian“A perfect storm of supply and demand factors is raging here. But actually there is a new level of demand that cannot be kept up with, everyone is in crisis and it is getting worse. ”
We reported last month that President Biden was looking at “reviewing the causes” behind this, but it’s hard to see what good that could do; we know the reason, and it’s just that the supply of the chips isn’t enough to meet the demand, and that may be for a while, which only adds to things like graphics card shortages and a bloated resale market in the near future will make things worse until production can increase (or at least only catch up).