every time someone says "a chip shortage, or they can't find more servers".

[Nothv13]

You listed a bunch of old articles talking about the entire semiconductor industry, the only real shortage is for specialized semiconductors for cars and odd devices, not servers. How about some real world data?

In Stock - Server CPUs for just one retailer (51 pages - including TOP AMD/Intel)
https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100008494%204131

In Stock - RACK MOUNTABLE servers for one retailer (100+ pages)
https://www.newegg.com/p/pl?N=100283...031341&Order=3

Servers from DELL shipping within 10-20 days (i.e. the period from which EW was originally supposed to release until now)
https://www.dell.com/en-us/work/shop...ts=35782,35781

Article with graphs showing large increase in shipments of CPUs
https://seekingalpha.com/article/445...-shortage-ends

So interesting thing. My company partners with dell. During that period, their website did indeed say such. The sales reps we work with said something completely different, and on orders, the Sales reps were right. 2 Months for a basic desktop. 3 months for a very low end server (what you would not want to host an MMO on). Hell a Monitor from them still took almost a month to ship.