Silicon Chip Shortage

[Mike]

Silicon Is the New Toilet Paper as Chip Shortage Hits Industrial Manufacturing - ExtremeTech


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[Elberoth]

The fact that AKM chip factory burned down didn't help either.

 

[Mike]

All NAIM Uniti products derived their chips from that factory. Now there is a 6-12 month wait....or more for NAIM Uniti products.

 

[Alkyogre]

i noticed that some things are totally out of stock at several wholesalers.

 

[Elberoth]

In Europe, all Denon/Marantz/Onkyo/Pioneer/Yamaha receivers are out of stock. Most of the distributors have just 3-4 models in stock. Onkyo/Pioneer have deeper problems.

There is also big shortage of Naim MuSo / MuSo Qb - basicly 3 months wait.

 

[2FlyingYorkies]

Not limited to just audio components at the moment. Just try to find the hardware to build a PC... Motherboards, maybe. But CPUs and GPUs essentially don't exist at any price or performance tier.

 

[mdp632]

So, is this is one of the reasons , pretty much every high end audio company is increasing prices?

In some cases, drastic price increases.

Trade policies from a a previous administration now coming to fruition?

 

[Randy Myers]

Any change in the market, weather it be tariff's, factory fire, silicon shortage, etc., gets passed down to the consumer via price increases. Always has always will.