I'm surprised we haven't seen an article explaining that the chip shortage is due to so many hidden chips being secretly placed on mobos used by the largest vendors.
It was a game of telephone gone horribly wrong, and Bloomberg's reputation is shot since they have refused to retract it.
This isn't a true statement, if strictly read--there are many techniques to hide undocumented components on boards, and covering all of them requires more than just a pass under a SEM. There's a fun talk that goes over a lot of them here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQhWitJ1As
Do you really need it explained why that's far fetched? I'm going to let you think on that a bit longer. It should have kicked in by now.