How The Global Computer Chip Shortage Happened

[@SKCodesForFun]

In the UK they're calling it the global crisp shortage

[@meowmeowmaxx]

Ight I'm British but that was funny

[@floppademon1506]

@@meowmeowmaxx Same

[@JeyC_]

Good one lol

[@MrKongatthegates]

Lmao

Lmfaoo

[@Alekpowah]

The business news guy needs some semiconductors to improve his audio quality..

[@fernfractal]

and maybe take a shower, or least least comb his hair

[@deanjordan6053]

@@fernfractal And go to the gym.

[@prilk1704]

why judge him by his look? be thankful because without him, we would not watch this video.

[@CrescendoFX]

It’s zoom idiot

[@MrKadvaga]

Maybe he should go for full conductors instead of just semiconductors.

[@cahoutcharles961]

Most importantly, I can't get an RTX 3070. Edit: I got a 3060 for 600$, I'm fine now.

[@ArcticZombie]

😔

[@ArcticZombie]

Etherium miners smhhhh

[@omniyambot9876]

3090

[@Alexander-vo4gv]

I want a 3060ti :(

[@lchaney]

Same! 😡

[@smittywerbenjagermanjensen752]

Tony Stark was able to build this in a cave with a box of scraps

[@SuperBaick]

Nice reference lol. My fav in the Marvel cinematic. But I have to point out that, Tony might be able to build the fusion reactor using scraps, but he cannot build a chip in that cave with a box of scraps, either in reality or comics. I'm not taking about the new sub 10nm node chips, I'm talking about the ones from 30 years ago, even those chips have micron scale patterns, that will need million dollars equipment to turn out. Have a non enhanced person making chips with bare hand is something even Stan Lee couldn't fashion. But I'm sure Tony can make some potato chips just fine in the cave, or corn chips at least.

[@localhost5959]

Well I'm sorry, we're not Tony Stark

[@svenmsandity2977]

@@localhost5959 well help get government out of his way then there are several tony starks in our modern day and you know what we should be helping them at least in terms of getting into space and building a geo pod in a astroid or something along with finding ways to get more funding to these people as the number one way to start solving alot of our problems is mass automation having stockpiles of resources and having a system that heavily invests in learning and innovation vs ponzi schemes scams and crime

[@localhost5959]

@@svenmsandity2977 Dude I was only continuing the lines from Iron Man 😂 But yh that's all easiler said than done, governments prioritizing innovation is a dream scenario. Also you should put a few commas and full stops, help a girl out lol

[@welson0623]

IN A CAVE!!!!

[@aarliann]

anyone whos into tech can tell you that the covid outbreak has raised prices on everything in the industry.

[@JuliusG73]

Nonsense. Powell told us inflation is soft.

[@thunderb00m]

@@JuliusG73 lol money printer go brr

[@DRCrimeCircle]

very true demand for new devices has gone up because many people are stuck at home yet supply is overworked because of covid. just a nerd engineering student saying

[@JuliusG73]

@@thunderb00m Not just tech. Food, energy, healthcare Powell believes a PS5 actually costs $299 (maybe if you're willing to sacrifice 5 days of opportunity cost sleeping in a tent beside a Best Buy) and that we eat large screen HDTVs for breakfast. Hedonic adjustments will assure a nice steady decline to where a basket of goods equal to 3 squares of dog food, a portable propane tank for heat, and all the Udemy you can watch for formal education.

[@Ribrubrob]

@@JuliusG73 prices on tech =\= inflation you clown

[@doosh2478]

I actually worked in the Tesla Fremont plant for a while not too long ago; They had to pause production on a lot of vehicles because of the chip shortage. It was really crazy seeing all the unfinished cars kinda just sitting there, but it really helped with our work at least

[@davidhale4647]

Gm and Ford shut down over a month because of this

[@ssusggus]

I thought Tesla manufactured their own chips?

[@ShashaParallax]

One of those times where I feel very stupid for not buying a 2000 series GPU in a clearance sale and now everything is double the MSRP

[@mykevin1122]

I was lucky to have all of my ordered gaming pc parts arrive during the spring break week, just before the pandemic. I can't tell you how long I spent gaming last year lol.

[@oksowhat]

well, MRP not MSRP

[@jameslees7103]

Me feeling good I bought my 5700xt in august for 325

[@dennisp8520]

@@mykevin1122 I'm rocking a RTX2080ti and I'm so glad I didn't sell it it may not be the best card anymore but it's still a great card to have and use untill things stabilize

[@opsxp23]

Yeah I seen that rtx 3090 for $2000 on amazon and thought I'll just wait till it comes down a bit. Its double.

[@greenstorm5568]

I am starting to think cnbc has a fetish for low-quality video interview aesthetics in their videos.

[@Prakhar_Choubey]

It was recorded during lockdown. Kindly excuse them for it. We apologize

[@mike4330]

you think CNBC could ship this guy a decent microphone.

[@Afterimage_Rush]

Agree. It's hard to understand what is he saying

[@F_Tim1961]

you are absolutely correct this Internet clipped Martian voice is hard enough for a native English speaker.. hell for the rest of the world. It sounds like Clipped SSB 'phone audio piped into the bottom of 44 Gallon drum. TE Fidler NzL

[@codingcaderikor]

@@F_Tim1961 I'm dutch I could hear him just fine don't assume you have no idea what others hear.

[@mattdc02]

We’ve spent the last 10 years putting computers into toasters, refrigerators, TVs, books, bathtubs, cars; everything we can think of. Wonder if that has anything to do with it.

[@georgehancock2307]

Is why appliances last a fraction of the time that.was all mechanical

[@obamaprism114]

@@georgehancock2307 no its not

[@georgehancock2307]

@@obamaprism114 actually it is, I have owned both and mechanical are much better for long term use

[@obamaprism114]

@@georgehancock2307 no it completely depends on the product, washing machines still use the same mecanical parts they did before just with better smaller more effient designs with integrated computers. If anything a good quility toaster washing machine dryer tv cars are waayyyyy more durable and better than older models and use mecanical parts. Embrace technology dont push it away

[@georgehancock2307]

@@obamaprism114 yeah old ones didnt have circuit boards that failed 6 days after being off warranty. I have owned several houses and the appliances just dont last like they used to. Cheap parts not built to last with crappy electronics mean these things are disposable.

[@JA-pn4ji]

I get it Taiwan and S. Korea make chips China wants to make chips and the US wants ketchup.

[@curtissharris8914]

We have Heinz we're good.

[@hariranormal5584]

intel does it all in the US c:

[@Jaryth000]

Here in Canada we love Ketchup Chips!

[@Justin-Hill-1987]

The U.S. already has enough catsup/ketchup. The U.S. wants to stop playing catch-up to the rest of the world in computer chip production.

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

@@Justin-Hill-1987 If the US wants to manufacture at home, it'll be the taxpayer paying for it. Cos it'll be way too expensive to compete globally, at least for the near future. That's *why* US chip companies offshored all the work in the first place.

[@Mico605]

So outsourcing became a problem to reliability. What a surprise.

[@qurrotatechnology2073]

Good analysis

[@DoctorHouse999]

outsourcing is also why your sorry ass can buy affordable computers and phones. If every country could make everything itself, there wouldn't be any need for trade.

[@coldblackice]

@@DoctorHouse999 _outsourcing is also why your sorry ass can buy affordable computers and phones_ No, no it's not. _If every country could make everything itself, there wouldn't be any need for trade_ Wrong again.

[@mroberts566]

@@coldblackice Please explain. I'm a layman, but to me it makes sense that computers and phones are affordable because other countries can pay their employees $1 a day to make them. Is that not the case?

[@ArawnOfAnnwn]

@@coldblackice "No, no it's not." ; "Wrong again." - Brilliant takedown! Absolutely top notch counter-argument. You sure showed him...

[@resanpyrice9420]

Semiconductors are used to make transistors. You dope it with trace amounts of other elements like boron or phosphorus to make p-type and n-type respectively. Then you can make npn or pnp transistors, where the n-type and p-type touch each other, allowing charged particles to move between the different types. For MOSFETs, an insulator is placed on the middle of the junction, and then a conductor, then a voltage is applied to change the charge of the conductor, making it have the same type of charge as the middle part of the junction, repelling similarly charged particles away from the conductor, and allowing charges to flow from one end of the transistor to the other. Then logic gates can be made, then larger circuits, then finite state machines, then you can make a chip that can be programmed or specific to whatever you want to calculate.

[@swlak516]

Thanks for an intelligent comment.

[@xcr1mmortal297]

good comment

[@78anurag]

Simplified version: Le make transistor from semi conductor Le Make circuit of transistor to create a logic gate Le use Boolean algebra logic with the logic gates to build arithmetic logical unit Le do the same for Memory unit and Control unit Le CPU has arrived

[@decoder55killer]

I remember you could get 2080 TIs for $400 when the 3000 series was announced...

[@teodjuyg56]

If only I had brought one

[@cyrusadamrevilla3851]

@@teodjuyg56 I regret not buying as many as I could and use them to mine crypto and make big $$$

[@ShimaS-0079]

To bad I was broke. Now I have money cant buy anything

[@headcheese3]

:( should have bought a 2080 TI, I bought a 2070 Super

[@mikeydude750]

Pouring one out for the poor saps who panic-sold their 2080Tis when they announced

[@IKEMENOsakaman]

Japan, Taiwan, South Korea, and China makes 90% of the world's computer chips. India, China, and Ukraine makes 48% of the world's potato chips.

[@muhumedmohamud2356]

wow.I am surprise seen as Asian country can innovate while having aging population.

[@neeljavia2965]

@@muhumedmohamud2356 Because they work their citizens to death.

[@stanleyguo7164]

@@muhumedmohamud2356 That’s exactly why China removed the 1 child policy awhile back. They started to feel the reduction in the work force

[@oksowhat]

well, india does not even make potato chips rater

[@ph11p3540]

That chip shortage will be a lot worse, especially for Nvidia and ATI video processor and graphics cards should China decide to annex or invade Taiwan.

[@kent6053]

"If the software is eating the world, then the chips are the teeth". Good one

[@enriqueclarks9725]

I started to lose interest when they kept repeating "because covid 19, because people stayed at home, because covid 19" it is easy to blame it on a virus rather than other factors...like...oh that's right, companies outsourcing their production to one single factory

[@zollen123]

There are only three companies in the world that produce semiconductors. It isn't exactly easy.

[@AlexanderNecheff]

There used to be many, many different companies that designed and manufactured their own architectures. Shockingly, no one wants to use a computer where their existing data is unreadable or at the very least requires expensive tools to access. Markets centered on a handful of architectures. Through acquisitions and market pressure, we now have a handful of architectures and a handful of foundries. SPARC, MIPS, PA-RISC and many others were shut down internally. Outsourcing has little to do with it.

[@sooocheesy]

@@zollen123 lol what? I can list off 30 different companies right off the top of my head.

[@ronakbhaaya]

@@sooocheesy name 10ish?

[@cyrusadamrevilla3851]

@@ronakbhaaya But we didn't have any problems outsourcing before covid, so one way or another covid is still to blame.

[@honkytonkinson9787]

It might have been interesting to add that in the 1950s tech manufacturers in the USA were complacent with their use of the vacuum tube and didn’t adopt the transistor until after the Japanese started having some success with their electronics

[@stephenjacks8196]

Not true. I've worked on IBM and other early ("one gate per board") computer modules that predated the Japanese one transistor radio I had as a child.

[@honkytonkinson9787]

@@stephenjacks8196 I didn’t say that Japan invented the transistor, but that they successfully implemented it into production. The US could have led the way with transistor tech but chose to stick with valves for a while longer.

[@OccupiedMuffins]

It’s comical how much we rely on things and do next to nothing to make plans on what happens if stops working that way.

[@Alanski-tb2ym]

Thats actually so true

[@Leopoldcold]

cap dude. there are plans

[@effexon]

@@Leopoldcold why those are not taken seriously? like Covid/disease backup plans were not taken before 2020.

[@censoredyoutube4902]

@@effexon Because nobody heeded Taiwan's warning! And here comes Taiwan again! Lol The heaven must be telling us something!

[@depralexcrimson]

@@effexon maybe USA didnt take action before 2020 LUL.

[@michaelb9940]

Its always refreshing when one of the speaker's voice sounds like its coming from him on his toilet seat! Makes the video a bit edgier!

[@welshsynthesizerlabs6552]

The audio mix sucks

[@ensignmjs7058]

Poopier.

[@adarshgadekar4933]

One suggestion... don't put video call recorded by u ... instead tell the person to record the video and send it to u so that it can get clearer

[@SamirMishra6174]

This is how it should be done

[@PersonaN007Grata]

If we can learn anything from this and all the shortages during COVID is that we need to fortify our manufacturing within the US as much as possible.

[@JoyMahendru]

Building a fab in US doesn’t mean, US will never have chip shortage again…

[@teddysmith8725]

"Chips are silicon with transistors built in" "Transistors are a sort of semiconductor" Can these guys do basic research on what they're talking about before doing investigative research on the topic? Even a quick Wikipedia search would describe these a lot better.

[@jessevanderkolk7902]

You want to hear doping and quantum statistics in altered band structures or is it’s a switch good enough :’)

[@teddysmith8725]

@@jessevanderkolk7902 I mean, the Physics aren't too important for a supply chain report, so I understand them not going there. And just saying that they're a form of electrical switch is probably enough. I just expect "investigative reporters" to not say stuff that's laughably naive/incorrect about the basics of the topic they're investigating. The problem isn't that they're wrong. The problem is that other people will think they know what they're talking about.

[@woodiemarv]

I agree I recoiled when I heard that...smh

[@Shelorygod]

They still think these are French fries... a high schooler would do better research then them 😅

[@vampirecount3880]

Would be nice indeed

[@davidpetersen1]

I work at a Chrysler plant in Canada. We had a 3 week chip related layoff in January and a good chance of another short interruption in production during March. Our "Days of Orders" for our cars has rocketed from a norm of 30 -40 days of orders to well over a hundred. Crazy times.

[@times461]

My hubby works in factory that works for Chrysler parts...he was notified yesterday of hours being cut.......Indiana

[@davidpetersen1]

@@times461 We avoided the rumored 2 week layoff this month but they closed down the minivan plant in Windsor to keep us running in Brampton. We make the Charger, Challenger and 300 models. Seems that gas guzzling muscle cars are still in vogue. Hellcats for days!! Hope things pick up for you!🌞🌞🌞

[@davidhale4647]

Gm and Ford shut down in US over a month now because of the chip shortage Also GM in Michigan had workers with covid

[@davidhale4647]

@@times461 GM and FORD have been shut down over a month now in the US because of the computer chip shortage

[@theMasch1na]

Really good coverage on the matter, thanks for showing all these different perspectives that are important.

[@hariranormal5584]

God the semi conductor making process (the robots doing it..) looks so satisfying i need a 1 hour video of that and no not one from 2006 with 144p quality.

[@damonkatos4271]

We are working hard at Texas Instrumemts. There’s been no let up during the pandemic.

[@garmack12]

I have been working for a semiconductor process equipment company for a year now. It’s absolutely bonkers the amount of product on order.

[@MoonLiteNite]

TI still makes chips?

[@damonkatos4271]

@@MoonLiteNite haha you so funny

[@damonkatos4271]

@@MoonLiteNite smash your iPhone and look inside to find the 5 TI chips if you will 🤣 that’s what I tell people when I tell them I work in the semiconductor industry and they say “what’s a semiconductor?” I should carry a hammer

[@BlueSky-kh8ue]

@@damonkatos4271 you guys have done great work with my graphing calculator 👌

[@edub_82]

Smart people have been talking about this happening for awhile now. Good to see you people are finally catching on

[@theobvu]

"smart people" good one

[@fyrman9092]

The pandemic has exposed many weaknesses in foreign supply chain. Simple things are oddly out of stock... TP, soap, microchip, etc.

[@ads2711]

I dont use toilet paper i use bidet shower

[@fyrman9092]

@@ads2711 Thanks for sharing. For the 99% of us who still use paper, supply is an issue.

[@joelpichette]

Well Canada makes toilet paper, and when the shortage happened in march 2020, at the grocery stores we got flooded with truck deliveries of 55-roll packs.

[@fyrman9092]

@@joelpichette So that's were it all went...

[@Lizardman9808]

@@fyrman9092 use rock ges

[@DH-bc8ck]

The problem is that semi-conductor is a highly specialized, extremely expensive industry. By now, only two companies are in the latest tech-node (TSMC + Samsung) and Intel has nearly dropped out. This means that the situation with chip supply within the US, in the short term, will actually get worse.

[@John-ez2go]

Not true about intel.

[@TryHardNewsletter]

Why don't cars and washing machines have intel make their chips in older fabs? I think 14nm should be just fine for a car. Do they need 7nm? Maybe the issue is TSMC and Samsung making promises they could not fulfil due to yields?

[@honyasenyou]

Dont forget us.

[@UniqueBreakfastTaco]

@@John-ez2go they signed a deal with tsmc because they can barely get 10nm working.

[@John-ez2go]

@@UniqueBreakfastTaco that is true, but i thought that is because they gave up on that process and wanted to go straight to their own 7nm fab which already had more success. Not sure if its 7nm or another, I can’t remember

[@laz7354]

For the US, this is less a Covid-19 issue and more the culmination of the 2016 - 2019 business and political trends of simultaneously outsourcing while at the same time barring specific countries from the trusted nations in the supply chains.

[@diegoflores9237]

First its outsourced and now they want to bring production back home....

[@tonypaca3015]

Yes we outsourced to Taiwan and South Korea

[@catlover9998]

@@tonypaca3015 No. Samsung and TSMC overtook their American rivals based on developing superior technology (Intel is a node behind and Global Foundries have stopped developing cutting edge nodes). Samsung operates a large factory in Texas which they are expanding. TSMC is also building a cutting-edge factory within the US.

[@maoss40]

No American want to do this kind the job, they rather homeless

[@johnmininger7472]

We are outsourcing in large part because companies in other countries are better and cheaper at building them. Look at Intel, they used to rule the world for processors, now they are far behind ... so much so that they considered giving up and outsourcing the manufacturing to TSMC using Intel design. So we can pay a premium price for an inferior product, just do nothing about it except complain ... or get better.

[@mikkodoria4778]

@@maoss40 don't be racist

[@discoverlight]

Christian Koenigsegg must be so chilled like “well I just need 10 chips to work this year along”

[@ristekostadinov2820]

Lotus too, since their cars have little to nothing electronics (until this year, because they will stop producing this line of cars).

[@fastxsam]

Lol. You know how many bus systems must be on their cars? I'll bet probably 50+ processors are needed.

[@Smothtiger]

That may be so though but Koenigsegg makes 20 cars yearly to something like GM with 7.7 milion cars yearly. (2019)

[@discoverlight]

@@fastxsam come on I meant to say a joke, of course they need more than 10, I think they maybe use like 10 processor of different type per car, but now let’s talk about Gordon Morgan automóvil (GMA) he legit must be really chilled about this processors situation. 😂

[@johnuferbach9166]

@@discoverlight afaik a usual more expensive car these days has like 80 processors, so 10 different ones is probably not enough for a super expensive super car^^

[@ex0stasis72]

The content of this video is awesome and super interesting, but the way that it was explained and some of the audio quality issues made it so that I needed to rewind and rewatch several parts 3 or 4 times before I could begin to understand it.

[@UsErNaMe5858588]

Yeah that's what happens when a country focuses on software and end customer technology and not on fundamental technology manufacturing know how..

[@paulhunt505]

It’s criminal that our government has not taken steps to ensure sufficient domestic production of essential manufactured goods.

[@kuhluhOG]

@@paulhunt505 but that would be anti-FREE market

[@davidschmidt5507]

Just cheaper to outsource

[@yd9434]

Maintaining domestic production is way more expensive which is much less competitive. If manufacturing tech can improve enough or US ppl can accept 3rd world salary, liters this can be maintained within US

[@NUCLEARARMAMENT]

@@yd9434 Most US workers already accept the equivalent of a 3rd world salary, since the US has insane costs of living and 40% of the population earn $25k a year or less, which is barely enough to put a roof over one's head and food on the table.

[@machinefannatic99]

It's not covid 19, semi conductor shortages started years ago when computer memory started being scarce..

[@jc.1191]

That was shown to be artificially made by manufacturers. Bitcoin mania makes it worse.

[@machinefannatic99]

J C. It wasn't just about that it's simply because everything started being a computer from the 2010s... everything suddenly needed a lot of computer memory which was mostly used by personal computers in graphics cards and video game consoles and now suddenly you have smart phones that use 1gb+ of ram per phone and you have 100s of millions of phones like that per year. Crypto currency helped slow down the availability of gpus but wasn't related to memory prices... it's the smart phones and smart devices that accelerated memory prices because memory is extremely important in computers. It's entirely the reason graphics cards are still having conservative amounts of memory like 8gb while the processors are miles ahead faster than they've ever been.

[@JewTube001]

yeah covid and bitcoin contributed but were never the core issue.

[@jc.1191]

@@machinefannatic99 Memory prices haven't changed much since I started building in 1998. Kinda been going up and down.

[@jzrr2631]

Memory actually haven’t been too bad as of late, few years ago was when it was at its worst

[@excitedbox5705]

Patents are a big issue. One of the reason there are no CPUs and GPUs is that the ONLY manufacturer of AIB films had a fire at their factory in 2019. AIB film is the circuit that connects your CPU to the substrate. Chips are so small that they can't be soldered directly to the carrier, so these films are laser cut, coated in copper, etched, stacked and sandwiched between the silicon die and the substrate which has the pins on it. The other problem is that the patents block companies from making these super precise machines that make chips. There is 1 company in the WORLD making EUV machines and only about 5 that make the most modern chips. There are literally a handful of companies making 90% of the most important parts that make humanity possible. Patents, copyrights, and trade sanctions are keeping it that way.

[@hbarudi]

Outsourcing is one of the problems related to this especially with rising demand for pure silicon they need to build more manufacturers to keep up with the demand.

[@TrajanDavis]

Now's a great time to be a computer engineer.

[@jc.1191]

Any engineer really

[@jjw238]

This has been true for the last 3 decades.

[@jaihind0VandeMatram]

Ever since this pendamic and WFH, no company is hiring freshers, all needs experienced and trained computer engineer

[@fernfractal]

since When has the world not needed engineers? of any kind?

[@funtechu]

@@jaihind0VandeMatram There has been a temporary hold on new hiring at a lot of companies for safety reasons, but it will open back up eventually, and then the demand will be even higher.

[@windblownleaf6450]

The correspondent seems like someone who was notified the night before that he had to do a speech on semiconductors,

[@LinasVepstas]

10 minutes before; otherwise he would of had time to shower...

[@vohen7362]

"we need the ability to make leading node chips in the US " - Amazing how ppl think they can just build a supply chain and infra-structre like that out of thin air.Sounds easy right ? Does this guy know that theres a TSMC plant being build in Arizona ? Cmon,do your job

[@g0dm4st3r]

You're expecting journalists to have knowledge of the things they report on? This isn't the 80s.

[@Lexyboogie]

But... he didn’t say it was supposed to be easy. Or did I miss something?

[@g0dm4st3r]

@Marcin Berman That may be true, but at least they made an effort to understand.

[@waynez5535]

All it takes is for China to unify Taiwan, and United Provinces of China will take the semiconductor industry to Valhalla

[@johnisdoe]

Yeah, a TAIWAN-SMC fab that'll be operated and owned by TSMC, Not by an American foundry. Intellectual property also plays a vital role in the semiconductor war. Do your homework before telling journalists to do their job.

[@MoneyMindMusic]

Lol the guy couldn't even tell you what a semiconductor is. Why is it they never use professionals in there videos, get someone that knows what there talking about lol

[@marknoneya6630]

the video production quality has gone down, it just felt cheap with very little effort put in.

[@Mountain413]

@@marknoneya6630 I imagine it may be due to remote work

[@TheFourthWinchester]

@@Mountain413 They have Google even in their homes.

[@j.w.8663]

It is: "... their videos" and "... what they're talking... ".

[@Rcck.7282]

yeah they should add linus

[@MilkyMangrove]

Speaking as someone who works in the manufacturing of these chips, it doesn't matter how many factories you have if you don't properly track demand of your product and take action immediately when you see trending or if you refuse to keep a safety cushion of extra stock in your supply chain. The abrupt stop that a lot of companies put in place for Covid caused them to lose their extra inventory which could have been used as a cushion during an upturn. Compound this with the fact that they also didn't start ordering material again until it was too late and you've got a frantic rush to make up a years worth of slack in the supply chain. Chips don't get made overnight and as such can take month(s) to complete from start to finish. It's a harsh reality that a lot of companies now have to learn from after decades of not having to deal with the consequences of this type of business practice.

[@shadow.banned]

Corporate America should've been upgrading its infrastructure all along, instead of waiting for a crisis.

[@LinasVepstas]

Corporate America is driven by profit, not long-term vision. This is built into the generic notion of "free markets" and capitalism. This is why we have regulations: without them, Corporate America has a bad habit of doing the wrong thing.

[@dirk-jantoot1029]

@@LinasVepstas To be fair, no one saw this coming, and you can't reasonably expect them to have taken a once in a century disaster into account. Let's be honest, you wouldn't have thought about a global pandemic and neither would I if I was a CEO of such a company. We should just accept that we can't have it our way all the time with no hiccups ever, that's an unreasonable expectation. Unexpected things do happen and we can't be prepared for every possible hypothetical scenario.

[@LinasVepstas]

@@dirk-jantoot1029 I worked in the semiconductor industry. Chip shortages happen every few years. This is not a once-in-century event. This happens *all the time*. Over and over. Repeatedly.

[@dirk-jantoot1029]

@@LinasVepstas ok, I haven't head of it being this severe and haven't seen any media attention on the industry on this scale. That's why it seems to me this crisis is much more severe than those you are refering to as happening every few years. To my knowledge this is the first time car manufacturers have to halt production out of sheer shortage, and they aren't the only one affected by these shortages.

[@cameosix7077]

@@dirk-jantoot1029 actually when the car industry ran out of materials, only Toyota was able to produce enough cars, since they always had excess before the pandemic. Most car Companies follow a type of manufacturing process in which they only start making the products if there is demand for it. Most car Companies could have never seen the demand skyrocketing after 2020 hence they are struggling, while Toyota had excess inventory instead of just buying stuff when needed

[@yakumo_kei]

This video sounds informative and BS at the same time.

[@Mashburn007]

🤣🤣

[@ivok9846]

i feel interns are making these "clips" for example this bs at 7:32 mindless crap from someone who knows nothing, put there by intern

[@JewTube001]

they didn't seem to have many experts on this one, only their own staff

[@ivok9846]

@@JewTube001 they had that guy that shouts over skype. another bs moment. at 3:20 etc.

[@redlion145]

Authoritative voice, intern quality research. Interesting that they're reporting on this now, when Biden announced his semiconductor plan, not when the shortage was getting going. Little behind the times, CNBC.

[@Si-Al-Ti]

We got the next week off because of the shortage, and I build trucks lol.

[@DragonHunter-oq3zi]

Wow. That is messed up.

[@EarthWasHere]

Are you being paid?

[@theobvu]

@@EarthWasHere obviously not lol

[@bobfty2680]

Anyone here after the absolute 3060 launch disaster?

[@nofekun1889]

3060 is actually 3050ti

[@faisalhabibi6348]

I don't care anymore about computer hardware, and if this continues PC gaming and anything that comes with it will be dead..

[@SirDella]

@@faisalhabibi6348 why don't you care? I don't care either, but wanna know your reasons

[@spicex4k901]

@@faisalhabibi6348 what

[@TheFourthWinchester]

@@faisalhabibi6348 Stop drinking so much alcohol. PC gaming popularity is at an all time high.

[@haizeabezala]

As the President of the US said: "We need to stop playing Ketchup"

[@dannyross8]

Okay I Like Biden But This Is Fkn Hilarious 😂😂😭😭

[@thinkabout602]

"we have to cut the mustard" 👍

[@ckelley1102]

Playing with ketchup is kinda messy

[@ivok9846]

is this trump or biden's words? sounds the same.

[@ivok9846]

@@sacksis how, this is made by robots, not humans. are you saying electricity is cheaper in china? well it probably is, but.... also if the problem is lack of laptops for kids and zoom meetings, as well as chips for cars, i think problem doesn't really exist.... do you have a car and pc? see?

[@ieast007]

It's not just the manufacturing of silicon wafers. There's many companies involved with manufacturing, testing, packaging, assembly, etc... The US has a pretty well developed silicon wafer manufacturing industry but they lack in some of the other downstream processes that are required for a finished product.

[@Squishmallows24]

Passing up on an rtx 2080 super for $800 last year is really hurting right about now, I’m still stuck with my gtx 980 :(

[@cloudr7979]

All this talk about chips has got me wanting Lays Potato Chips 🙈

[@h_3_x_]

Lmao

[@thinkabout602]

😋 now you did it !!

[@lil0of]

I think my laptop has one of those

[@289cobra9]

😂😂😂😂😂😂👍

[@user-ol7rk4wm8o]

😂😂🤭

[@TechWeLove]

We NEED more SUPPLY. Companies should sell products with 14nm, 16nm, 22nm if supply in lower nm are not available.

[@BioGimp]

0:32 so proud of his analogy

[@urooj09]

Can the world also start researching into recycling these chips and electronic parts. We have huge amount of electronic waste. Get some funding into reusing these metal and silicon.

[@josephj6521]

In Australia, you can take your old electronic devices for recycling. Easy. 👍

[@MoonLiteNite]

the silicon is not the issue, and the lack of metal isn't an issue. Is it where the chips are made. Most chips in the world are made at TSMC, they own like what 40% of the market? Follow them up with samsung and intel and that is 75% chip producers. Who makes chips in USA still? intel has a small fab in AZ. Global foundries has a fab in NY Samsung in austin, but i wouldn't be shocked if they leave since the city can't manage rolling blackouts and made them go offline for a day, costing them tens of millions of dollars in lost wafers. But most of their stuff is in korea. NXP, AMD, freescale, TI, uhh that spinoff of AMD, all those guys are pretty much out of chip making at this point. Too high taxes, too long of a wait. Better for them to just outsource it to TSMC

[@GuitarAlex]

@@josephj6521 wow, in america (at least New York state) we have a place to drop electronics off, but it's only allowed a few times a year, and then there's usually hour+ long lines...that's why it isn't uncommon to find old TV's, microwaves, computers, etc in ditches.

[@urooj09]

@Baba Gandu ?? Why

[@bazZzment]

Thanks for the explanation. By the way: I hope CNBC has managed to get Kiv a proper microphone by now.

[@happygimp0]

You didn't mention one major reason: Mining. Because of the economics consequences of lockdowns, government print more FIAT money, so more people loose trust in them and buy other assets. This is one of the reasons cryptocurrencies exploded. This also means mining got much more attractive, especially now that there are not much hardware on the market so the total calculation power of the miners don't increase that much, which means mining is very attractive.

[@bobdooly3706]

He does not answer the question. Let me tell you the reason why there are a poor supply of silicon chips. It is because there is a drastic , world wide shortage of high purity sand & quartz which is the key ingredient to make silicon chips.

[@ejaazidris1649]

I feel like the IP of semiconductors, the USA, sanctions on China, and Texas Instruments and others were interestingly left out of this reporting... 🤔

[@Limpuls]

What’s up with Texas Instruments?

[@HH-xs2gm]

Not related.

[@JosephKulik2016]

My opinion is that people were quite happy, even grateful for their quality of life well before semiconductors were even invented. Much of what this technology has done is to rob people of their independence. For instance, many people repaired their own automobiles before they started to install computers under the hood. Now they must take their cars to expensive dealer garages. This unneeded technology is even behind the Right To Repair Movement. For instance, John Deere tractors now have computer technology in them and the sales contract makes it illegal for farmers to hack the system in their tractors to enable them to repair their own machines. The same issue of Right To Repair has surfaced with Apple products. Again, chip technology works in favor of making the Rich Richer and the Poor Poorer. Chip technology has also enabled Big Business to invent products for which the consumer had no expressed need until the product was first marketed. For instance, NO One can show me a survey or a news article pre-1990 where consumers demanded cell phones. People were quite happy with land line phone technology until Big Business "created the need" for cell phones. I'm not against "progress" but for whose ultimate benefit is all this "progress" for ? Certainly it isn't for the ultimate benefit of the consumer, who was quite happy, even grateful for his quality of life before chips were even invented. This version of "progress", which has been brainwashed into all of us, is for the ultimate benefit of Big Business, which really ran out of new needed products in the 1960's, and then had to "invent needs" through chip technology just to make more money. Capitalism as we know it accomplished its historical task by the end of WWII and should have been replaced by a more adaptive economic system. Instead, it has languished in the ensuing decades by inventing new technologies which in turn invent products that the consumer was quite happy without and which has ultimately led to even more consumer debt and even "debt slavery". ... [e-mail]

[@Unitedwithin1]

@@JosephKulik2016 , Top of the range transmission buddy.👍 please stay proactive as sadly to say the digital cyberspace chip and pin future is upon us.! It seems our strawman lives in the cloud and our biological presence is yet to become easily measured in joules of flesh per pound of watts expended on the biological digital blockchain..!?!

[@Unitedwithin1]

@@JosephKulik2016 , kzbin.info/www/bejne/gaGbfqCfZ8SHl7M

[@firojmnalam6121]

जनसंख्या के दृष्टिकोण से उत्पादन अधिक हो सकता हैं?👍👍👍👍👍

[@sabriath]

"We need to go green!!" *batches of silicon are routed to 'green energy' production of solar panels *Apple decides that replacing their electronics is more profitable than allowing third party repair, so everything is serialized and people just replace following brand hype *new consoles hit the market in a fury fight to compete with pandemic lockdown gamers *bitcoin races to over 20k and demand for gfx cards go through the roof as mining operations try to go full swing, getting even more demand over 40k and 50k "Oh no, we have a chip shortage, how did this happen??" - I don't know Timmy, the world may never know..... (morons everywhere)

[@prfwrx2497]

Exactly.

[@enzotaufan]

Apple is the most hypocrite company ever

[@joesterling4299]

And then there's market-analyst pressure on Intel to drop chip production entirely. (That didn't age well.)

[@faisalhabibi6348]

Well said brother well said 👏👏👏🎉

[@humphrey3432]

The US has no idea how this is going to affect them especially when it comes to trade, the supply chain, raw materials, rare Earth and Sea materials, trade routes, etc... Like with the Pandemic, they don't think it would affect them and they don't care. Wait until China secures all of the countries they are terrorizing and militarizing. Oh, Biden is repairing ties to China. He was also one of those who led the deals so that US businesses, factories and jobs, were and can be easily transferred to China.

[@arindamkumar7725]

Defending Taiwan is in US's own security interests.

[@marcusgoodsir6541]

and I bet you would be on the battlefield faceing the Chinese Army like your grandpa did on the Korean peninsula 70 years ago.

[@TWWalker-j6f]

yes

[@kimtau87]

& you honestly think America can win a war with China? People hype things up like it's fun before hell comes down hard. War isn't a video game. America has a good history of winning wars with weak countries that no one cares much about. like Panama, Libya etc. But not ideological hotbeds like Cuba, Vietnam, Korea etc. The Military Industrial Complex will tell you everything to pump money in the US military out of fear of China. But ask yourself one simple question. Are you ready for a nuclear war? China is a Nuclear Super power & can deliver a number at your doorstep. Are you ready to take delivery?

[@jayg6138]

“Defending Taiwan” what a load of bs. America only ever does what’s in their own interests. Couldn’t give a fk about any other consequences and who they step on

[@Zergcerebrates]

Fighting China will be the bloodiest war in US history. If they have trouble with Afghanistan and Iraq what makes you think they can defeat China? A country that has a powerful military and ability to strike anywhere in the USA.

[@alexjim3128]

I hear this everywhere I go. It's really a supply demand market atm. From consoles to vehicles I'm at the mercy of salesmen who do not negotiate because their at an advantage

[@zorbat5]

Uuh, it always was a supply and demand market. The whole economy is based on supply and demand. Even the FIAT currencies value is based on supply and demand (look at the forex market). If the supply of matches goes down and demand goes up prices will rise... The problem here is that making 1 chip can take months, so the influence of higher demand with a low supply is huge.

[@ceeril]

Video actually starts at 3:50, before that is just the definition of chip.

[@TheRealBozz]

The Auto Industry!? For God's sake the gamers, man. The GAMERS!!!!

[@firojmnalam6121]

लोकप्रियता और पाठकों को आकर्षित करने के लिए पैकेजिंग की ही जानी चाहिए," इंटरनेट युग के साधनों से लैस, पैकेजिंग और मार्केटिंग में कोई कसर नहीं छोड़ रहे, जाहिर है,ये सभी इंटरनेट सोशल साइट्स और तकनीक के साधनों को पूरा इस्तेमाल किताबों के प्रोमोशन में कर रहे हैं 👍👍👍👍👍

[@googleit1131]

The one thing I'm thankful for COVID for is making the US, and the entire world, realize that they need redundant everything. Backup power supplies, solar power or something in case the grid fails, more automation in and more efficient manufacturing, the need for more efficient supply chains, the need to have a inventory of things incase a component shortage happens, the benefit new technology can bring, etc.

[@AuggieTB]

Let the market sort itself out. No need for government involvement. This will promote innovation which is what is needed

[@Jesperalex]

I was thinking about building a new computer and retire the one I have from 2015. Looks like I was wrong to think it would cost what I thought it would, the total pricetag was about €3000 (US $3600) for a high-performance desktop and I did not even select the most powerful components, with the graphics card being the most expensive and the rarest to see in stock. The chip shortage sure has raised the prices, and personally I might as well wait until the market and prices recover a bit.

[@fastfiddler1625]

This makes me want to play Factorio.

[@MoonLiteNite]

hahah what i tell people at my job (in semiconductor field) This job feels like real life factorio....

[@JackieWelles]

or Satisfactory :D

[@fastfiddler1625]

@@JackieWelles Or Dyson Sphere Program. If you haven't played, do it now!

[@JackieWelles]

@@fastfiddler1625 Oh haven't heard about this one. I will check it out, thanks!

[@franwex]

I saw a video that explained the Super Mario Bros 2 shortage in the 80s. It explained how the transition to the newer tech can create shortages. It occurs ever so often. I guess we are living through one too and it’s affecting video games again. Hehe.

[@belowaverage7539]

It amazes me that this factor was ignored after the Japan tsunami happened. I mean it wasn't so much of a semiconductor issues as it was almost all products coming out of Japan sky rocketed in cost for a few years issue. It hit the camera industry pretty hard which is why Nikon and Canon moved a lot of production from Japan to neighboring countries. If I'm remembering correctly I believe, as of this year, all of Nikon's production is in Taiwan now. It's like Governments and companies ignored/ignores the "natural phenomena" variable when choosing supply chains. They also ignore the old bit of wisdom to not keep all you eggs in one basket and now we are REALLY feeling the effects of that globally.

[@p0ck3tzzz]

also miners: let's buy them all

[@Jonathan900S]

I mine Ethereum with RTX 3080 & RTX 2080 Im gonna get another RTX 3080 to gpu mine

[@johnnypinkleton9410]

@@Jonathan900S i got an RTX 3090

[@Jonathan900S]

@@johnnypinkleton9410 nice i got My Asus Strix oc 3080 2 days Ago now just need amother PC My MSI ventus 3x oc not that great on mining it doesent go over 1000 over memory 110c memory heat and there nothing i can do about it power limit didnt do any unless like 30 percent on power limit

[@Jonathan900S]

@@johnnypinkleton9410 and then 30 mh/sec

[@Jonathan900S]

@@johnnypinkleton9410 il put My Asus Strix 3080 in My Main PC which is a prebuilt hope it has another 8 pin and Also not crappy PSU its so strange when i checked msi site its either 500w psu or 750 w bronze But when i check it out i see yellow sticker i know nothing about taking apart pcs il pay someone to help me

[@hayashiguchi]

I feel like rewatching The Departed to hear Martin Sheen and Mark Wahlberg say....“Microprocessors”

[@dangerousnoodle3730]

damn well it's really nice when you work your ass off for almost a year then you're so excited to get your first super cool gaming computer and then this happens...

[@chauvblakeney9298]

"The transistor, a kind of semiconductor." 0__0 Wow, big brain moment.

[@xanhfei]

I bet they will be shocked if they knew LED are semiconductor.

[@ampere-mam]

How did we get from a toilet paper shortage crisis to a computer chip shortage crisis??? What reality are we living in???

[@Jason32Bourne]

Reality of over productivity, stupidity, and the cumulation of humans raping the earth.

[@ampere-mam]

@@Jason32Bourne agreed

[@steven1671]

Did the video not explain it well enough? Every (big) business last year expanded their cloud operations. Imagine companies like Google, Amazon and Tesla buying up all the CPUs.

[@ampere-mam]

@@steven1671 well the biggest problem for the CPU shortage today is because people are staying home under lockdown restrictions a lot of people are actually buying a lot of electronic appliances that utilize the CPUs

[@Brett33]

These need to be made in America so that the entire economy isn't shutdown due to shortages like this.

[@Fusiongearz]

I have been one of those idiots that overpays for stuff because of a supply shortage in the past. Not this time baby, i'm waiting this shortage out.

[@KILLKING110]

yet books are getting stupid cheap now its ironic the most reliable source of information is getting cheaper while the more complicated source of information is getting more expensive

[@gtxthunderstorm6219]

More about covid 19:- It gave us holidays Side effects - price inflammation

[@applescruff1969]

Pros - you don't have to work anymore. Cons - Literally everything else.

[@StayMadNobodycares]

Covid didn't lead to anything, People led to this. PEOPLE.

[@hussainshaffah6488]

This covid ruined everything. Covid even took my crush away from me. 😭😆

[@MrSoull]

It’s alright. There is no shortage of orange crush soda. I’ll buy you another one.

[@jc.1191]

Aww

[@FabioTheGreat]

She was never yours.

[@nverend4450]

Took away means she's alive or no?

[@picklerix6162]

Can’t you get another goat?

[@GameControlYT]

This is what happens when you started adding chips to even Water bottles. Every thing need to be "connected" "smart" so that they can charge extra and control the product you buy.

[@clutrike7956]

Without these chips, we essentially go backwards in time by 80 years. This is the most important issue facing the United States today.

[@_rob_.]

You're wrong.

[@clutrike7956]

@@_rob_. Post IP coward

[@_rob_.]

@@clutrike7956 Seriously though, you don't think things through at all do you?

[@clutrike7956]

@@_rob_. Post it. Well debate irl, coward

[@_rob_.]

@@clutrike7956 You're wrong again You and I will never debate. We're done here, good luck with that brain. Go to God, or go to hell... your choice.

[@FinancialShinanigan]

Outsourcing for lower prices comes to bite us

[@ristekostadinov2820]

I mean Intel is verticaly integrated company and they can't produce processor that is functioning well with chip smaller than 14nm, they are promising it for over 5years. On the other hand AMD works with TSMC and they're succssesful in making chips on 7nm and they anounce that next gen processors will be on 5nm. South Korea and Taiwan have pretty advanced tech and US is moving more towards services, that is double edged sword.

[@komenisai]

@@ristekostadinov2820 Intel can make the 10nm chips, but not enough of them to sell at volume to consumers. They've released some low power 10nm chips and such. AMD is also kind of cheating by only have the processing cores on the 7nm node with the I/O on 14nm. Nothing wrong with that, but their chips are not purely 7nm.

[@ristekostadinov2820]

@@komenisai ok i posted that, to clarify why some manifactures uses those companies (because they are specialized). If you see which country is making the most high tech hardware you will see South Korea at the top.

[@ling636]

This wasn’t because of outsourcing. Most chip producing companies are Asian, founded by Asians in Asian countries.... how is it outsourcing if they stay there lmao

[@adityapatel9735]

Not for semiconductors. South korea and Taiwan just out innovated usa and there are no alternatives if you want best tech.

[@godseeu2]

Lays: I know how to make chips! Want some?

[@176cgna]

Same thing happened with repair components like lcd's batteries and other parts used to fix electronics when Shenzhen closed for covid alot of factories ran out of stock fast especially since people work and go to school from home people repaired their electronics because they didnt want to buy new laptops or couldnt buy new.

[@GeneralCondom]

AMD sold on million of their new processors in a month, we are talking 400 $ and up chips and it lost market to Intel because they couldn't keep up with demand and the most hilarious thing is that the companies creating machinery for the foundries are most of the time American, if anything we should give Taiwan protection

[@autohmae]

ASML isn't American. If I'm not mistaken they are the most important supplier.

[@jasonji1900]

There is no most important supplier. Without every tool in the fab, absolutely nothing gets done. Applied Materials is the largest semiconductor capital equipment company and is headquartered in Santa Clara CA. LAM Research # 2, also American, #3 is Japanese (Tokyo Electron), and then finally ASML (The Dutch). They do have the lions share of photolithography, but there are 3 other players in that space too.

[@autohmae]

@@jasonji1900 Ah yes, because photolithography is the top dog in chip manufacturing when it comes to highend. That's why I I was thinking that. Other technologies matter as well of course and actually do larger volumes.

[@HondaBSnoLNW]

No one talking about bitcoin and its effects on the shortage and environmental impact? Makes me so frustrated with hypocrites climate change supporters that Im gonna do my part and take my frustration on the trees in Borneo.

[@Ohiostategenerationx]

Your buying the kool aid lies. The majority of bitcoin mining is done with renewable energy like hydro power in China. Also a major mining company in Europe is using thermal power and some major companies in the U.S. Is using solar. Compared to the power used by millions of ATMs and bank branches bitcoin is not even a fraction of all that. Education is a good thing. So educate yourself on the topic instead of just repeating lie's and trash.

[@yogender3303]

@@Ohiostategenerationx oh, so you are saying that all majority bitcoin mining operations in china are powered by hydropower. Can you give me a link referring your claim? and Good username btw for a chinese spy.

[@user71285]

No. Cryptocurrencies are primarily affecting the GPU sector, but you've way off if you think its effect is at the global level the video is talking about. There are also trade offs in anything in life, and the social and economics of bitcoin is something I can fully support. Don't just go looking for a scapegoat.

[@yogender3303]

@@user71285 What is Economic of Bitcoin? Enlighten me please

[@johnuferbach9166]

@@Ohiostategenerationx china mostly uses coal power

[@jooky87]

Chips are not essential. All of humanity could exist just fine without them.

[@victorgarcia9090]

Sike

[@suckaducka5607]

Chips very important. Software don’t run in air, they run on hardware(chips). Software just utilize the hardware at their disposal.

[@RossCampoli]

Been impossible to get a graphics card for retail price for so long now! 🖥

[@nofekun1889]

I am running out of patience. Gaming on my 3200g lol. Wanted a 3060ti but😭😭😭

[@jc.1191]

@@nofekun1889 I got a 1030. Good thing I'm into retro. 🤣

[@jc.1191]

@@nofekun1889 Jezuuus. I just googled 1650 super prices. They were just $169! Time to dumpster dive throw aways.

[@nofekun1889]

@@jc.1191 really bad time as a gamer stuck at home

[@jc.1191]

@@nofekun1889 Yes sir! Play what you can tho and make the most of it.

[@justvallier8818]

sorry if im wrong, but thing about it. if they can overcome this situation (increasing production speed of semiconductor). then there will be so much stock and the price will become lower to. because high demand = high price

[@satriaamiluhur622]

I've been using my lenovo laptop for 5 years, and my samsung galaxy for 5 years also. So do i count?

[@hdhwkq]

Very noice

[@jifa17]

It's a surprise that your samsung didn't explore. I would never buy a Samsung phone.

[@oliverwu3131]

@@jifa17 You should try the latest version

[@legendofdan2974]

Summary: there isn’t a shortage just an over demand, all of these company’s had not predicted the amount needed due to the COVID pandemic. Some of these facts are just off topic and irrelevant...

[@ScienceMessiah]

Who gives a f* about facts!? Just believe all the crap they tell you... Otherwise you are a conspiracy theorist. PS: Stupidity is neither conspiracy nor theory.. it’s an integrated part of our reality.

[@terrasai2857]

@@ScienceMessiah God damn who hurt your feelings? You need some milk

[@kristiadihartanto2623]

Over demand yes, thus creating shortage because of low production

[@shylajashylaja3829]

Our "Days of Orders" for our cars has rocketed from a norm of 30 -40 days of orders to well over a hundred. Crazy times.

[@JEL5150]

1:25 is there a microphone shortage as well?

[@ropro9817]

Kif Leswing needs to invest in a comb and a razor.

[@Skoda130]

Glad I got a new PC past summer. Can hold out for a few years to come.

[@xavia8128]

I'm busy here gathering i5s for 10$ i3s for 1$, just in short time I'll be building my own PCs. Motherboards ain't that expensive

[@JackieWelles]

Interesting how Covid-19 as bad as its actually showed us how not ready and outdated our infrastructure and thinking is. Chip shortage, laughable internet speeds, the way we go to work, the way we travel ( tourism ) etc. Hopefully countries will take notice and start doing things differently.

[@johnson6099]

2 billion dollars is nothing to these huge companies. Shame how they don't even want to lose the smallest amounts of money.

[@PiDsPagePrototypes]

It's be nice if the interviewee had the chips for decent webcam, headset mic, lights,.....