Search Ray Minehane Conversations My Wife Will Not Have With Me Menu Search Search for: Close search Close Menu Categories Uncategorized Chip Shortage, mean less more expensive stuff Post author By Ray Post date November 4, 2021 The global chip shortage has been going on for a while now and seemingly will drag on well into 2022. The thing about this is that it affects every part of our lives whether we realise it or not. From inflation, geo politics and more pertinent Christmas gift buying.
From a quick geopolitics standpoint TSMC (Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company) is one of the main chip manufacturers globally and they are as the name would suggest located in Taiwan. It does not take a massive leap to see issues in the future and China and the world butt heads over Taiwan want for independence and China’s want for control. China already manufactures many of the electrical products needed and this would be a further wrinkle into the future of global trade.
But how is this affecting you now? Well Santa might be in trouble. Video Game consoles have been feeling the pinch of the chip shortage since day 1 with the Xbox series X and PlayStation 5 consoles being like gold dust in some places and this is not improving, with shortages to affect manufacture until September 2022 .