03-15-2021, 02:14 PM | #29 |
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Production of dies went down. People stuck at home; demand for products that use these dies went up. There are very few CPU Die (Integrated Circuit) Manufacturers. Industries are trying to buy out these manufacturers so that they can control what specific dies are being made to supply their own demands. Hence the automotive industry is being blamed for slowing down the production of graphic cards for gamers. Its all related to bitcoin. Bitcoin value sky rocketed causing massive purchases of electronic devices. Some people are even buying 100s of laptops to use for bitcoin mining farms because at its current value, its profitable. |
03-15-2021, 02:23 PM | #30 |
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Poor management in the gm corporate structure. Too much focus on tomorrow's vehicles and none on today's vehicles.
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03-15-2021, 02:51 PM | #32 |
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If they don’t have enough silicon or whatever or chips to make fossil fuel vehicles now. How are we going to switch over to all electric do they use less silicon or chips. Seems like demand is only going to go up if they’re not prepared now this could be an ongoing thing like gas shortages now it’ll be chip / silicon shortages.
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03-15-2021, 03:01 PM | #33 |
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03-16-2021, 06:51 AM | #35 |
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Saw on news this morning that the truck line lack the ICs for the hardware that provide increased fuel mileage, but they are going to produce and sell them anyway and giving the customer a $50 rebate. Wow! Don't spend it all in one place. But seriously, I would expect they would install the correct hardware when available.
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I have actually thought of buying a pickup, and it would only be used. Pre-2008, so none of that variable displacement garbage or other "fuel saving" crap. |
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03-16-2021, 08:19 AM | #38 |
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It's the supply chain and manufacturer shortages, the huge demand over the past year for home electronics whether for work or entertainment, the ridiculous cost of bitcoin and the unreal mining setups that people are putting together to mine the stuff, and the fact that consumer demand has remained stronger than anticipated in areas like the car industry.
It's not just cars and trucks getting the shaft...it's all kinds of things. Great example is computer graphics cards. I'm running a GPU in my computer that I bought about a year ago for $260 (that actual retailed at the time for $230) and I hated paying over MSRP for it, but it was slim pickings back then. Now it's impossible...unless you want to pay dearly. If I wanted to today, I could turn around and sell my USED GPU for $450 to $500 on Ebay. But that would be foolish because there is nothing on the market/eBay or otherwise to replace it for less cost that performs the same or better. For fun, I tried to get my hands on a new GPU that hit the market a few weeks ago. It was instantly sold out everywhere...and I mean instantly. I was looking at four sites it was supposed to be sold on and it dropped at 11AM. Two of the sites crashed because of high traffic. Now that same GPU that retails for $330 is selling on Ebay for $800 or more. No Thanks.
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Give me back the analog world. Carbs and points/coils, turntables with simple motors and belts and switches, and stereo receivers with real potentiometers and switches. Lamps and dials, tuned radio circuits, vacuum tubes and big capacitors.
That stuff sounds better than all the digital crap anyway. Seriously, isn't this all a reminder that maybe the old analog, carbureted world wasn't so bad after all? Stuff just worked, it wasn't literally rocket science, and when it broke you could fix it. |
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03-16-2021, 10:47 AM | #42 |
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Looks like I got my LT1 just in time :-)
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