The global shortage of chips, which affects everything from PS5 to graphics cards, is becoming a “crisis”

While anyone who reads it may know that it’s been hard to find a PS5 lately, many other markets are also experiencing shortages, thanks to a global “crisis” that affects the supply of semiconductor chips to, well, anything that uses them. And that’s one a lot of things.

How The guardian report, although the supply of chips should improve now that we are months away from some of the worst blockages and interruptions in the distribution of Covid, things have succeeded worse due to market changes (we’ve been buying a lot more computers, TVs and consoles while we’re stuck at home) and a huge influx of new products using them, which puts more pressure on the supply chain.

The shortage of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X is just the tip of the iceberg. The launches of big phones from companies like Apple and Samsung have been postponed, new graphics cards are still hard to find, and worldwide, automakers are slashing production or stacking unfinished cars in parking lots while they wait. chips needed to power their software systems.

“Chips are everything,” technology analyst Neil Campling said The guardian. “There is a perfect storm of supply and demand factors here. But basically, there is a new level of demand that cannot be maintained, everyone is in crisis and getting worse ”.

We reported last month from President Biden he was looking to “review the causes” behind it, but it’s hard to see how well he could do; We to know the reason, and it’s just that the supply of chips isn’t enough to meet demand and it may not be for quite some time, which will only make things worse like graphics card shortages and an inflated resale market for the foreseeable future until production can increase (or at least just recover).