Is the whole process to do with "Just In Time" Manufacturing processing, predicting need in the future, based on supply/demand and when it gets thrown out of whack when it goes down, because they're also trying to eliminate the waste as well in manufacturing, it magnifies the issue?
not quite because JIT implies that they have the materials that they need and are CHOOSING not to manufacture more, but the simple facts are that whether it's GPU, VRAM, Capacitors, VRM's or even in a couple of cases that I'm aware of RGB CONTROLLERS! they don't. They have sit, waiting to build up enough components to do a production run, which obviously means that there are higher overheads for every card that they produce because the production line is run well below it's ideal capacity.
There's so many shortages in so many sectors than numerous factories and fabs would have to decide to "expand" at the same time for it to make much difference.
I had an email from a supplier yesterday telling me that they'd had to put up their pricing due to a 200% increase to the price of FOAM!
Good work!
We need a special thread "Hall of shame" for this sort of thing.
GDPR still applied unfortunately