Quote Originally Posted by Walkerged View Post
The fact that TVs and PC monitors have chips in them means someone is getting the chips somewhere. So, it's not that semiconductors aren't available at all, they aren't available in the numbers needed to keep up with demand which makes the price of what is available go up. In other words, Server Hardware and chips are available to those who want to pay the price required or have the patience to wait for their order to be filled.
It means some supply of some chips are available. On low dollar, low specialization chips. Servers are astronomically complicated. And you need exactly the right combination from specific vendors to even get them to work. With a TV I can use a thousand different parts from a thousand different manufacturers. With a server, I need to buy a specific set of motherboard(s) and card modules from one company, a set of processors from one company, and hundreds of sticks of ram from one company. And I can't mix items even with "identical" specs because they just won't boot. And if I can't find all of that at the same time, I can't make my server. And if it's been built for a specialized load, like some super data center specific IBM chip at the core, then you're looking at even less choice. You're essentially locked into a specific vendor.