Quote Originally Posted by TristanX View Post
Chip shortage affects many things. That depends on how bad is the server business. They are not just for games. Businesses needs servers as well.

Even desktop CPUs and GPUs are affected. I still could not find PS5 and Core i9-12900K at reasonable price after 1 month. Look at price of the graphic cards. They are insane.

Expected at least 2023 for them to fix supply issues. New manufacturing plants will be ready on that year.
Actually, it's a bit deeper. The stem of evil is cryptomining.

https://www.windowscentral.com/globa...crease-q2-2021
https://www.digitaltrends.com/comput...pite-shortage/

GPU shipments drastically increased!! And yet not any laymen can afford or purchase any low-to-mid end GPUs at all. The only GPUs we can purchase are either too expensive to expect mining profit or too flimsy(?) to mine anything (i.e. GT710, 210...)

In other words, the dwindling resources (to make fundamental passive elements and power supply components) have been allocated to GPU instead of making motherboards or CPUs (or memory modules... DDR5 is also heavily scalped at this moment) for server machines.