PS5, Xbox Series X Component Shortage To Be Investigated, President Biden Says

@zerojuice:They ship packages for Amazon at an operating loss. Tax payers bail them out of these holes, not Amazon. USPS has asked for more bailout money, more frequently from the moment they started cutting these deals.

I don't presume to know the solution, but worshipping to the idol of Amazon while stuffing it's coffers with subsidies is not a viable solution.

@EricDWright:

Semiconductors are mainly made of Silicon, Germanium and/or Gallium Arsenide. Compositions are rare, but possible.

Silicon is produced in China, Norway and Brazil, but it is mined in China, Russia, Norway and US.

Germanium is produced in China, Russia and Brazil, but it's mainly mined in Alaska and Tennessee.

Gallium is produced in China, Germany and South Korea and it's mined all over Asia.

In all 3 cases, China controls between 83 and 85% of the production chain.

@mezzanine58

That is the problem with the "trade wars".

This is going to sound like a defense of China, but it's not. I'm just pointing out what happens. To be clear, the Chinese Govt has been dishonest for decades, holding the value of their currency low, allowing intellectual property to be stolen and committing some incredible Human Rights violations.

But this is a case that "Everyone wants steak, but no one wants to bang the butcher".

One country starts blackballing tech, establishing taxation without criteria, the other country does the same with whatever they can.

There's something that must be understood. China has a 2.7 billion population with a 1.8 to 2.1 billion people workforce.

It is also on track to surpass the US GDP by 2029.

That economic growth comes with improvements in quality of life. The Chinese population is consuming goods in a rate that we haven't seen in history. Close to the US in the 60s and 70s, but with 8x the population.

China has the size and population support to be self sufficient. The rest of the world does not.

So either the rest of the world jumps into the trade war and takes a side, or they will have to find a way to work with them. Otherwise, they'll just keep controlling the supply chain and favoring their own market.

@cj_topspin: what freedom? the freedom to spread contagion?

You probably should have just left the comment. The actual contrast is 5,000 dead vs 500,000 dead. Quite revealing for the current period.

@mezzanine58: actually the x86 instructions are owned by amd and intel(where as arm is owned by the United Kingdom patent and Sweden) so if you're a phone manufacturer you must obtain a arm license) where RISC v is open source low instruction set, where china can manufacture what ever semiconductor, however RISC v predates Arm low compute instructions, where as x86 is complex compute instructions, meaning greater power consumption, cost to transistors, and server costs.

Where arm is a blue print design china can hol-heartedly or anywhere to fabricate their own transistors (and they do, like wuawai, and with Googles open free android gnu licence, and Arms cheap license, the prices of phones have reduced in value considerably in the last decade, but that wouldn't have happened if under intel, Nvidia or AMD, )but if trade sanctions are imposed the American government can sanction use of parts(given how dumb it is, and why arm is such a beautiful system capable of x86 instructions) because let's look at the Asus Rog 3:

It's running on arm blue print, and uses Snapdragon(Qualcomm) that devices clocked to 3.1ghz, that's crazy.

So however you look at it, given Nvidia was going to buy arm, (thank gawd Microsoft and Google raises concerning reasons towards why? )because it reaches billions of people, but not x86 it's stil expensive even for people around the world to use, but we don't achnowledge that nor care, only when it effects us in other areas of life.

@mezzanine58: Yes, I know we produce them, but what I mean is that we need to produce the majority of it as in 80% or more. Do you really think we wouldn't have a shortage if we only produced 39% of them? So in other words you have made a stupid comment if you just stopped & thought a little. We need to be world leaders & dominate the market at all cost as industry is going to be more reliant on chip manufacturing & component manufacturing. We need high schools dedicated to science & technology at its core teachings, and if we don't do it you bet the others have already begun.

Because this industry is so pivotal it must be highly regulated & encouraged and should have lower tax brackets so it can thrive and constantly expand and innovate. And CHYYYNNNNAAA is used as a place holder...meaning them! And I am not talking just chips, I mean ALL computer technologies!

"The United States and its allies are global semiconductor supply chain leaders, while China lags. The U.S. semiconductor industry contributes 39 percent of the total value of the global semiconductor supply chain. U.S.-allied nations and regions—Japan, Europe (especially the Netherlands, the United Kingdom, and Germany), Taiwan, and South Korea—collectively contribute another 53 percent."

https://cset.georgetown.edu/research/the-semiconductor-supply-chain/