The semi chip shortage is causing some problems

[Timberridge]

Or so it seems. Auto plants idling or cutting production now.

I bought a new AV receiver and had to call 10 places before I found one. I bought the last one he had in that model. The sales dude told me electronics are backordered at the wholesaler level.

[Meathelmet]

Try to score PC parts like power supplies, processors let alone GFX cards....
Easier to find virgin unicorns.

[BmillsSkier]

Did people switch to Intel to wipe their asses when the toilet paper shortage hit?

[Timberridge]

A&D chips.

[Toadman]

Buy American

[Marshall Tucker]

Charlies chips

[BmillsSkier]

Charlies chips

Somewhere I still have my parents' big, metal Charles Chips pretzel and potato chip tins.

I used to sit down with those things and house some salty snacks in my teen years.

[XXX-er]

I think everything is in the middle of a shortage or a probelem getting it shipped due to container shortages or spots on ships

isnt the american way to ship the jobs to china for the lowest cost producer, reduce everything to rust/decay and make money selling crack ?

[Toadman]

People stocking on chips before the SB.

[stealurface831]

i've got two bags of tostitos in the pantry i think

[Toadman]

Go full chip, or go home! There is no semi chip.

[abraham]

I think a full chip is just a wire

[BmillsSkier]

I think everything is in the middle of a shortage or a probelem getting it shipped due to container shortages or spots on ships

isnt the american way to ship the jobs to china for the lowest cost producer, reduce everything to rust/decay and make money selling crack ?

For a guy who worked for a company that relied heavily on chips, you have one massive chip on your shoulder for said company’s homeland.

Let’s get you a beer and some fish n chips to cheer you up.

Might make you less chippy.

[Gcooker]

Try to score PC parts like power supplies, processors let alone GFX cards....
Easier to find virgin unicorns.

Lots of graphics cards are being bought up for crypto mining rigs so I’ve heard.

[XXX-er]

For a guy who worked for a company that relied heavily on chips, you have one massive chip on your shoulder for said company’s homeland.

Let’s get you a beer and some fish n chips to cheer you up.

Might make you less chippy.

its happened in a Canada too, why do yu hate globalization ?

[ötzi]

I think everything is in the middle of a shortage or a probelem getting it shipped due to container shortages or spots on ships

Ship bound for LA from Japan recently lost 1816 containers overboard. https://gcaptain.com/drone-footage-g...e-apus-damage/

Another one recently lost ~600 more

[RootSkier]

Wow that is a hell of an insurance payout coming up.

[ötzi]

Crazy how many are still left on there with 1816 missing.

[JimmyCarter]

Crazy how many are still left on there with 1816 missing.

If someone asked me to guess how many containers those ships held i probably would've come in south of 200.

[ötzi]

Wow that is a hell of an insurance payout coming up.

Estimated over $200 million https://theloadstar.com/one-apus-sta...d-to-top-200m/

[Soups]

Just read a WSJ article on the uptick of containers lost at sea and insurance payouts.

[Mazderati]

Is this like a rash of financially underwater boats sinking right before the new boat show?

[zion zig zag]

Ship bound for LA from Japan recently lost 1816 containers overboard. https://gcaptain.com/drone-footage-g...e-apus-damage/

Another one recently lost ~600 more

Somebody threaded the ratchet strap backwards. Easy mistake, I've done it.

[abraham]

Is this like a rash of financially underwater boats sinking right before the new boat show?

Cool thing is some of those containers supposedly float for a decently long time. Just below the surface, without any clear signs you're about to smack into a steel box.

[BmillsSkier]

Crazy how many are still left on there with 1816 missing.

If someone asked me to guess how many containers those ships held i probably would've come in south of 200.

A couple months ago I took my son up on the Cooper River in Charleston to see the container ships get loaded and it’s like staring down into the Grand Canyon on those when they’re empty. And then they stack em 50 long and 40 high on top; insanely huge.

Coolest though was going to the other side of the river in North Chas watching trainfulls of new BMWs and Volvo’s roll straight off the train, into a staging lot and then onto this enormous ship that splits in half vertically from the other half to load cars. They close it and clamp this skyscraper back together. Off to Yurp.