Intel CEO Sees Chip Shortage Lasting into 2024

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Oh gee, that's great. Look, I wish we could just be honest with ourselves here. The chip shortage is never going to end. Given the pandemic policies of many supplier countries, the rising US-China tensions, the status of Taiwan, and many other factors, I think that we're gonna have this shortage for quite a while, probably into the late 2020s at least. Until we get serious with ourselves and actually make a gigantic push to develop and subsidize domestic fab capacity, we're gonna have a chip shortage.

Of course, such a push would directly benefit Intel, so I'm not surprised to see their CEO agreeing with me.

Ironically Intel chips seem to be plentiful.

Of few generations older varieties mostly. Alder lake is impossible to get from distributors.

ULP Alders are only sold to tier 1, a teaspoon at a time.

On other hand, 2-3, even 4 years old dies from Intel stocks are flooding distributors who use every thing imaginable to get rid of them.

I’m sorry. I base this on the fact that my local MicroCenter retailer seems to have plenty of the 12 series CPU’s in stock. I remember how difficult it was obtaining many of the Ryzen 5000 series for months.

You mean BGA laptop chips? Or desktop ones?

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