WE HOPE IT’S CHIPS
Jun 24, 2021
4 minutes
Ian Evenden
Tried buying a GPU lately? Chances are that you’ve been disappointed, faced either with dwindling stock levels or enormous prices on that well-known online auction site. And it’s not just PC gamers who are feeling the pinch – stocks of PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles are at rock bottom, and even car makers and tumble dryer manufacturers are having trouble getting hold of the right amount of silicon to create their products.
There are a few hypotheses about why this has happened, from large ships stuck in small canals, to Brexit making it generally harder (and more expensive) for the UK to import
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