I Was RIGHT!!!! (and I hate it) - Semiconductor Shortage Explained
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At the start of the pandemic I guessed we were about to have a massive shortage of computer hardware... and unfortunately I was right.
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Miner: “This card will pay for itself in 4-6 months”.
Scalper: “This card will pay for itself AND a second one in 6 days”.
Early miners: "The card already paid for itself, now I resell it for 2x MSRP!"
I know, I was going to mine with my 5600xt, and now it's nearly double its value. Im better off just selling the card
@No U Gaming that’s the truth
@@kieronmckay4276 no its not
@No U Gaming I say both AND frick the hardcore gamers. This post was written by I NEED A NEW PC BECAUSE OF MY 9YO PC AND #LINUXGANG
That ending with "take you savings and go spend on your local businesses" was a very welcome change of pace.
no linus, let me play vr!
I would, but in order for me to do so my governemt should let me do so....
Indeed
Very welcome.
You could read it that way, but it was a doom and gloom statement for GPU availability.
Linus: And this bad news is brought to you by: Pulseway!
Pulseway: Thanks, I hate it.
if only it was Anker.
4:18 LMG is now on an FBI watch list. "Miners" and "minors" sounding a little to close here.
underated comment
At least it's not "fuck miners"
@@solared
He said that 4 times.
And bleeped the minors. I mean miners.
FBI watch list? If anything, they'd make him head of the DNC Intelligence Committee. Or at least the President's son
As someone who works in the service sector I have to say the last bit of the video really touched me. It was really thoughtful of you to do a shout out. Proof once again of why I watch this channel every day and why purchasing a water bottle and hat was money well spent.
This comment needs more visibility
lol
Both my wife and I have been working through the whole pandemic and I feel for you guys. It's why we've tried hard to keep spending on our local service industry and I personally try to tip as much as possible. Good luck guys and hopefuly we'll be on the other side of this soon.
Yea this was a great message. - I have been a remote worker, mostly since 2011 - and it annoys the hell out of me, when people I work with, act like lockdowns are the obvious solution that amounts to a slight inconvenience. - the average techie has low empathy - People who like inanimate objects more than people are not a great judge of the social good
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I work in Semiconductors on a daily basis. This is a very well researched piece. Bravo Linus and team. I'm now depressed.
1st
@G Team On Lock Quite unlikely but if he could he would lol
😭
Well researched doesn't mean correct.correlation doesn't equat to causation... Sorry pal. While you may be associated with this you and linus are incorrect.
@@PEANUTBONE 9vs0
"Crypto crash leads to bog sell off"
You were right linus
Is it actually though?
Well yes, but actually no
crypto recovery cardano hit ATH :D
Not going to happen. Way too much money being pumped into crypto right now!
LOL
I can’t even be mad at the sponsored plugs when those transitions into them hit so hard. Well played boiz.
I think this is the typical, "One woman can make a baby in 9 months, but 9 women can't make a baby in a month" kind of thing...
Cant do it alone lol. Gotta have us guys around for something.
@@jeremygalloway1348 Or like, trans girls.
@@arcadianwind Yes, a woman can enter into a lesbian relationship with a trans woman.....problem sorted.
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WHAT???? wife number 5 and wife number 8 will kill me for that
The man who pushes PC parts just suggested you wait on buying parts and instead spend your money on local companies that are truly suffering from this pandemic... I like this.
you're thinking too deep into this
@@arnav4958 what do you mean? that's basically what Linus did.
The businesses that are open anyway lol
I wish I could like this more than once.
Unfortunately, I can't support the businesses that are suffering because, surprise, those businesses are CLOSED
10:34... Yup... That actually happened
Thank you Linus, after I watched this video and conducted further desk research I got a distinction for my honors exam for supply chain management. I can't thank you enough 🤟
"Didn't basically the entire tourism industry get laid off"
Tourism here, I literally just got laid off a couple of hours ago.
Linus predicting my life now.
all Portugal is based on tourism and we have everything closed for months restaurants hotels etc a lot of people without jobs...
Big part of Greece too
@@fullfunk Same in France.
Good luck enjoying French restaurants these days.
Now go GAME! DO A FAKE JOB LIKE ESPORTS!
*Tourist here
Tourism is not a person...
"How's the economy?"
"It's K"
"That's good!"
"... not really"
If you're at the bottom it sucks.
Underrated
*America, land of the cowards, home of the global tyrants.*
Here you go.. czcams.com/users/shortssCuH2piKhW0?feature=share
@@tyrannusspissamentum4423 sure bud keep thinking that way
Loved your comment at the end about waiting to buy a GPU and helping a local small business instead. Exactly what we all should be doing.
Linus also called the crypto crash, good job.
Please encourage more influencers and content creators to support local. best thing ive heard come out of a youtubers mouth this year.
Up-vote please. Give love to people around you
Yeah, the online monopolistic competitors resulted not so great for the general public as expected.
Thank you Linus Media Group for the comment towards the people around us!
Boss move. Major flex.
@@stergiouioannis3967 i support the German economy by buying German products.
"Here's how to get one of the cards: ..."
...AAAAAAANNNND they're gone.
yuppp
Delivered to: Nota Botman
they only had about a 100 lol at least from the asus side i think
ye lol
Should have been the Verified Gamer Program + Lottery to give us a shot.
I work for an appliance company over the past several months we've been making more and more old style units on a line they wanted to phase out years ago. These old fashion units use mechanical timers and zero chips. Crazy stuff
Good old style washers and dryers! I like them since you can fix them when something breaks!
@@henri6595 was going to post the same..
So many things have a complicated computer in them when it only provides flashy functions that dont help the primary use of the product..
But it does stop repairs which leads to buying new products from the manufacturer..
@@zakofrx I actually just fixed my dryer some 6ish months ago. What was broken was the plastic dial and old click style timer for what heat duration you want. Saved me $700~. I also noticed the rubber belt that turns the tumble cylinder is cheaply made and will need replacing eventually. It's like you said the fancy digital units just make them unrepairable. I highly recommend everyone get old style GE Dryers and Washers (CHEAPEST MODEL NORMALLY 😁). Those seem to be the best for longevity. My brother's house has a dryer and washer set roughly 20-years old. I'm sure someone fixed those units themselevs a few times through the years.
@@spets234 No problem. Just remember to only buy the cheapest model for washers and dryers, preferably GE. Those GE models have the least tech and most parts available online.
4:17 LET'S SAY IT TOGETHER!
When you overclock society, and end up bottlenecking the fabrication.
Underated comment ... so far
Damn right
go up
lol
big fax
I remember I used to go to best buy or microcenter every few months just to look at GPU'S I couldn't even afford, now I can't even do that
I hope you will soon be able to afford those GPU's.
God bless America
Hope you can afford it, or better yet hope they can bring affordable gfx cards !
I can't even see it in person because microcenter doesn't exist in my city.
@@_freezingfrost_6515 same thing with every1 not in America
I always appreciate Linus. I feel like the experience you ought to expect with him is he traffics in infotainment; and that doesn't require 100% the sort of candor, good will and surprising humility I've come to expect with his content over the years.
He isn't the commentator type that Louis Rossman is, who just wants a 100% honest interpretation of his own feelings and company ethics. But damn its evident he puts in alot of effort to be as fair to everyone around him.
This was all solid food for thought.
Linus, I have watched your videos for about 6 years now, liked all of em, never commented. Over this duration, I have mostly concurred (in my mind) that your opinions are slightly different from mine, and that is completely okay, your content is still one of the best out there. But this is one video I agree with you on 100%. I just thought I should let you know that you are awesome!
"This bad news is brought to you by... PULSEWAY!"
I'm sure they loved that
At least its not bad sponsor
Again
Thats what i thought
As a company, u never know what kind of promo you'll get from this guy :D
They knew what they were getting into with him...
Nope. basically every paid adspot in any video the sponsor gets to decide if they like where their ad is placed or not. However, someone like LTT is a great business partner, so being a bit more relaxed is safe.. but its not like they sign a deal saying put the ad however you like it, they get to confirm that the ad is okay.
I wonder how many people knows that Pulseway is just a puppet company of Kaseya, that has failed before on the same market... if you have ever had any contact with their Sales team, its full of indian people, wich is not a problem in itself, but for some shady seasons, they all have pseudo names impersonating western people. Now that, is what I really don't like in a company, or in humans in general. Faking every contact with customers makes me think there is a bigger fake move on the way, and this at the end just turns me away from this bullshit acting.
Love that you did a shoutout to supporting local stores and restaurant
Completely agree. The largest companies in the world have made record profits this past year, but normal everyday people and businesses are hit the hardest.
Solid recommendation, I'm stuck with my 1050ti but know there are people far worse help. Let's help them instead of whining about it!
But no plug to exclusivity support black-owned businesses. Racist.
Amen
@@TurboGoth lol
I really appreciate you bringing up how the economic issues of income discrepancy are causing some serious issues and that it should be cause for introspection among ppl who are privileged to have not been badly effected by the pandemic.
I've been floor level in warehousing, and I've actually done well out of the pandemic with a new job, promotion, and value added skill training opportunities, but I was lucky that my skills just happen to fit this period of demand. I could easily have gotten screwed and been homeless right now. Many ppl I know have been hit pretty hard, and by no fault of their own
10:40 "unless maybe a big crypto crash"
It's happening!!
This was a huge help in understanding that it's not just as simple as a "silicon" shortage but rather a lack of infrastructure to support the changes in supply and demand.
We've got plenty of sand and ingots lol. The damn photolithography machines cost too much money! ASML needs to bring down their price but they either can't or won't. Fabs will continue rising in price too it seems.
@@DurzoBlunts tsmc just announces they are raising all production prices by 30% so we'll likely see 45-60% MSRP increases now
@@QueenFinli bruh
Its not as simple as a "lack of infrastructure". An event happened that turned society completely around. Nobody could have predicted the effect that a pandemic would have on a digital society and certainly couldn't have predicted it would result in a massive housing boom and toilet paper shortage.
@@gunmnky I agree and disagree with that. There was a huge lack of infrastructure around silicon production, and the pandemic in a sense stressed that. The fact that most of the world gets their silicon from TSMC was and continues to be a huge issue (coupled by massive labor shortages due to COVID etc)
It's weird seeing old clips of him without the beard, now. It suits him really well
^
Yeah in the first days with beard it looked weird, but now it looks really nice on him
@P Harrell Linus actually has a good frame tbh; I do like women for whatever it's worth.
wish my beard was as good looking as Linus' beard
He looks like he can f some nerds Up, now
"Big cryoto crash leads to big selloff"... Yepp that aged well
supporting small business owners was a great recommendation. thanks for shining a light on this group 👍
The age of introverts has come.
Extroverts can use the phone.
And it's not exciting
It had to
@@ianvisser7899 That lifestyle is unhealthy and won't lead to any improvements whatsoever.
My time has come!
Hey as a restaurant worker in Toronto. Thank you, for being one of the only people to actually say out loud that my friends and coworkers as well as our friends in entertainment industries are getting screwed.
I haven't worked yet this year and I barely worked last year
I did get to work for a few months last summer though, and I decided to invest in a new computer, just something okay
(my last build had survived for 8ish years somehow, but I was playing more indie and less AAA. By the end things were getting a little chuggy)
I found your show (and a few others) and thanks to your advice put together a modest system that can still run Doom at 60fps, so life is good
My PC and the ability to talk to friends (I actually play games with other people now, it's weird) has helped keep me from fully losing my shit in an awful year. You guys helped make that happen, with all your good advice and fun videos. Thank you
as for building a pc today... you can always buy something that isn't bleeding edge. Laugh away at my Radeon 5500XT, but it didn't cost much and I can play anything I want to these days
RX5500XT is a a good card, nobody laughs at it :) Grats on the build and Good luck in finding a new job!
Need you in industrial automation as I've been working mad hours, 60+ for weeks. Can't keep up with the sudden jump in demand.
I would love a 5500XT, but that's out of stock too! Nothing worth buying is available.
HAHAHAHAH 5500 XT? That is peasant shit. Chads use GT 9500 512MB VRAM with broken cooler 😂. I actually have this Gpu. Upgrading ASAP.
I bought 5500XT this year at a reasonable price (was the only half decent card that didn't cost twice its MSRP). I am pretty happy with it tbh.
This is very much true. Was just recently in a Samsung fab. One of their tools on the front end of production had gone down for some random thing. This particular tool applies a coating to the silicon in preparation for chip production. Anyway, the Samsung engineers out on the fab floor were nearly in full on panic mode to get that tool back up because it was bottle-necking production.
I really appreciate the research that was put into this and the recommendation of using local businesses
"Sorry, we are currently out of stock"
Thumbnail: "I told ya"
💀 💀 💀
Is the konami code 573? I didn't play much of contra that much to remember 😅 can someone please welp
@@adnanerochdi6982 Up, Up, Down, Down, Left, Right, Left, Right, B, A. It's called the Konami Code
But it seems they are long gone
@@adnanerochdi6982 they're already out of stock but the last two digits of the code were BA
Should have been the Verified Gamer Program + Lottery to give us a shot.
My 2yr makes me rewind the intro like a dozen times to jump/dance to it. Pure joy even with bad news.
It's called 'Supernova' by Lazlo, by the way.
Mine does the same to Brooklyn 99's intro.
@@boobus8447 more or less, usually it’s fun
Ah man, this video is AWESOME!
Your real talk at the end was impressively polite and eloquent.
wow wow wow. Loved the last bit to the core. YES YES! We want more such good-hearted initiatives man. Lets spend at local place. Here in India, Chennai, Tamil Nadu.
- Buy Vegetables and Groceries from local walkable stores instead of bigbasket or flipkart.
- Spend on buying flowers etc once in a while for your prayers at home or your wife.
- Ensure to always tip Swiggy and Uber in cash
- Keep smaller liquid cash to give away to sanitation people and metropolitan service workers when you see them at work
Biggest of all, if you have enough money, support a family that has lost a breadwinner with education support.
Jesus Linus' looks didnt change for 10 years and in 1 year he has completely transformed.
And he grows a pretty solid beard. I'm so proud, he's growing up.
Except the voice. Hasn't changed since pre puberty
E
@@ShotGunner5609 his facial features are, but not his mind. He still drops stuff daily
IDK why he ever shaved in the past. The beard looks so much better.
As a small business owner it’s great to hear you encourage ppl to patron their local small businesses. Cheers
boooost
Right? One reason I really respect Linus' channel. Would've been real easy to ignore that part of the equation, good for him
Missing SOOO the point! What research and " high level" talks did you do? This is BS! Most GPU's are sold to bitcoin miners that need them because the bitcoin did became insainly high after december last year and Elon musk did buy in to it. Thats why the is a triple shortage. And you did not even touch that! All cards in our shop are sold to bitcoin miners over the past 4 months! No schoolkids, no home workers... 100% bitcoin mines. They are willing to pay TRIPPLE!!! for cards! So. I am asking you. What GPU reasearch did you do to MISS this??
@@icourant he did talk about miners tho but I think he under estimates their importance in this issue
@@icourant ETH miner you mean ? you can't mine BTC with GPU you'll end up in huge loss BTC only profitable with ASIC now.
I fucking love how he makes the intro to the sponsors funny as shit you'd figure in videos like where bad news come this they wouldn't wanna be linked to it but with the verbal setup it just works XD
Great message at the end there fr. Much respect for not taking what you have for granted here
When "linus was right" celebration is so much better than every birthday i have so far
Traumatic flashback to my family singing "Happy Birthday" out of sync while I awkwardly sit there
@@user-bk7to8gn5l lmfaoooo
LTT is probably worth like $50M.
And, Linus doesn't have friends. So that makes it worse. 😁
F
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you mean pulseway?
@@tringobass3329 whatever the sponsor is :p
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@Yung G Don't have it any more, miss it so much :'(
I saw this video in my feed now again and remembered how I selled my MacBook to build a gaming PC after Linus made the video "pull te trigger now". It's a humble machine but it's brought me so much joy and couldn't made it without Linus' advice.
I work in the multi-room home audio industry. We haven't had chips available to make our amplifiers in almost a year. Backorders are out to at least November, and possibly March.
Man, that part on local establishments is gold. Honestly, a lot of people are having trouble competing with bigger companies everywhere!
like they say rich gets richer poor gets poorer
I came here to leave the same comment. Local business's need all the help they can get these days.
I have massive respect for Linus for making a point of that.
I don't get it.
Why would they need support if they're open ?
How can we support them if they aren't ?
@@bendu49100 here's the thing, if they're open they have to maintain social distance rules so it's not the same as it were before and even so it's not everywhere that establishments are able to open. Also, they can have delivery services if they're "closed", thus still maintaining some of the work and income whilst still being closed. I'm not from North America so I don't know how it really works out there, but that is what I can say from what I could gather.
Linus: "When do you predict the chip shortage will no longer be an issue?"
Big Wig: "No comment."
L: "Off the record?"
BW: "Legit, no fucking clue."
You cappin'?
No cap.
when we get rid of all the seagulls
From what I read it could be two to four years before stocks return to normal
@@Jacob6853 sounds about right.
@@Jacob6853 📉
I sell products required for manufacturing to one of the companies Linus mentioned. I can confirm consumption rate has gone up and the 22 and 23 forecast is way higher than existing capacities, so we are upgrading our production capability as well but can only meet about 65% of 22 forecast
Loved the “Can’t buy a GPU at MSRP? Maybe just wait and put your money where it’s needed. Other people aren’t doing as well.” sentiment. Everyone really does forget how “together” we really are. Everything we do affects the people around us. Don’t be the center of your own universe.
I swear you guys give me faith that CZcams still has some decent people on it. Keep it up guys.
I suck on mushroom tips. Sometimes holding tip so blood fils the vein therefore poofing up the stem. My farts are loose air too. Does that make me a decent person?
@@tibettenballs4962 that makes you a person.
and that's enough internet for me today.
This comment make me qonder what kimd of content creator you are watching
@@xloko92xgaming8 I watch you mr India
Checkout Louis Rossman
That message at the end about local businesses is mutch appreciated!
- a small business employee with a job on the line.
You just got a $1380 raise... ie: There are no more Cards to spend your Money on, aren’t you ecstatic? 😬
anyway I gave my like just for a cool number
@@Len_M. we're not all american numbnuts
@@33screamingfrogs34 I’m not American, numbnuts
10:43 Me watching over a year later: If only that were true. to be honest I'm glad I was able to get an AMD cpu for less than 300 dollars.
Very insightful. And good call out to support local businesses!
Loved when the subtitles guy decided to forget Linus and go his own way.
Well, not so nice for the people who rely on the subtitles though...
@@ilektraschulz3562 I don't know, it was telling me how to get a GPU from the V.A.G. initiative ;)
@@totalgamingaddicts1622 subtitles are not there for your amusement. They are for people who are hard of hearing or who don't speak the language.
Therefore they should be as accurate as possible.
Thats a codex every person in need has to be able to rely on.
I know it sounds like wining now, but there needs to be a line drawn somewhere, and that's when the ground rules of accessible communication channels are deliberately violated.
@@Ecstasia1 I understand your point, but I still think it's a very clever way of getting the GPUs into the hands of gamers and not scalpers. I found the V.A.G initiative to be more interesting than what he was saying tbh. In any case, I don't think subtitles are for my amusement as you put it. I'll accept that the hard of hearing may have missed out on a couple of minutes of video, but I'm far more impressed at the unique method LTT has used to help gamers avoid the scalpers.
hahahaha was watching this video with low volume then it didn't feel right!
the 5 first seconds of linus' intro sounds like a sim character celebrating his birthday
Holy shit you're right
You ever eaten chocolate, then flushed it with sea salt water, then started chew a gum?
You wanted a challenge?
You got a challenge....
@@ancientslav4863 u good bro?
@@ancientslav4863 You ever drank raw water?
I worked on a project at my old job back in 2017 and 2018 that was for construction of a new semiconductor facility in the USA. They got the first 2 units from us (of 4 total to run the facility) and they were hesitant then and slowed down the 2nd half of this new facility - this was due to be in 2019 (to open in 2020) and then the pandemic hit, and they couldn't get those other 2 because hospitals and other emergency builds were put in ahead of them - and that will take another year after before the plant can go online.
I left on Jan 1 2020, and so glad I didn't have those headaches through the pandemic.
Meanwhile, my expected upgrade on my personal computer has been pushed back another year - so I'm using a 10 year old computer to not bother trying to play games, but man I need some computing power for cad...
Majority of office staff in the UK took their work comps home with them, tablets and laptops saw a pretty big rise with kids doing school from home though.
Such an awesome initiative! Too bad this run is out.... looking forward to the next batch!
This optimism borders on psychopathic denial of reality
I mean what is "kunami code" I'm not a native English speaker and I'm cracking my head to understand it 12:17
I'm not a bot lmao
@@thewitek498 konami code
@@thewitek498 it’s a cheat code used in NES Games.....
When you give the right answer in class but everyone calls you a nerd
And then you become introverted from this repeatedly happening, fulfilling your nerd destiny.
When you give the right answer and someone else says it louder and gets the credit
@BILLIE SAYS DUH LTT is not my inspiration. My dad said if I get 5 million likes on my new song. He won’t buy me a professional mic. Not begging you guys. Please.... I hate you. I am not lying
Hoi daan
@@float32 you can't stop what you started, especially when your Destiny Is to be a Nerd
This is all complete and utter chaos. Great info on K recession, semicond etc. You are a star x
My dad works at a new semiconductor plant that is contracted by the US government, but has yet to start manufacturing. There was a small hiccup in being able to get supplies a while ago due to COVID, but since the US is pushing for more locally manufactured semiconductors, as opposed to having them imported from China, it is being majorly supported and pushed to go into production faster. The semiconductor industry is absolutely insane right now. It’s growing so much because it is becoming more and more important and in demand. Trust me, the US knows that we need to be getting on top of the shortage, they are actually funding my dad’s plant specifically for national security reasons. Semiconductors are in so much demand for literally everything right now.
linus: this bad news was brought to you by-
pulseway: my disappointment is unmeasurable and my day ruined
and my *sponsorship for you has been embargo'd
LOL!!
Haha... I thought of the same, but again, its Pulseway and they are a long time sponsor. So they probably are cool with this!
@@VAISHALIDORANALA well, embargo, not dropped completely.
That’s linus’s job
*immeasurable
" Instead Johnny is padding his savings account, while the bartender is moving into his/her basement" This is exactly all I've been thinking about. For real.
Ngl, discovered it didn’t hit me as hard because my job is essential. That part about padding the savings account was true. Did you lose your job?
Johnny is a batty man
@@ronniewhyte4864 Ive been an unemployed bartender for 11 months
@@christopherflink545 so now you're employed?
Same here! All this money keeps accumulating in my savings account and I can't find computer hardware in stock to spend it on. It's terrible!
I'm a car salesman and our inventory is about 30% of what we usually have. We are selling cars at MSRP minus rebates when we usually discount them $500 under invoice. Last 5 months have been amazing for us but It is scary right now.
That comment on supporting local businesses made my day!! Great explanation of our current situation!!
All i've got to say is that i appreciate you man, you look into the issues that you know people are dealing with, do the digging, give us the straight facts about the situation, and support the underdogs. The world needs more people with your mindset. Everyone is dying to get their hands on these cards and a lot of them look to big tech channels such as yours to get the information they need, and instead of telling them to use bots, or to get into live update channels and all the shady stuff, you say save your money, the time will come where you can get these things at msrp, in the meantime "support local buisness" ... coming from a tech channel. You're made of the right stuff.
This was all common sense. No research necessary
Tbh, tech chennal profit from suggesting people to buy more stuffs than they need. Hats off to this video for honest opinion.
Linus probably has multiple 3080's and 3090's yet tells us to wait a year. Nice.
@@zakanttila1893
LMG may as well still receive production samples as most big tech channels do.
@@curt8806
Yet it's so easy to forget when your income does not depend on being a worker for the tourism industry, for example...
"Didn't basically the entire tourism industry get laid off?"
*cries in italian*
@Dark Cow cries in Belgium
Our entire country went down (faster) with it.
Cruse industries still dead
Cries in Portuguese
Cries in spanish.
I'm a IT Field Tech for some local luxury car dealerships. They have nothing to sell. People are looking for high end cars constantly and I listen to the sales people complain about inventory constantly.
I would be interested to see the metrics on how "bailout" funny money is affecting the demand.
I love how the Steam user count spikes coincide with stimulus checks in the U.S.
ngl thats where one of my checks went
@@chief2632 Same. I mean obviously I worried about my bills before anything, but after all my expenses I used the extra money for steam lol.
Between that and unemployment paying people way more than they actually made at their jobs leading to a massive amount of people spending on things not within their actual income range. I feel bad for them because setting yourself up that way can only lead to pain later on, however experience is the best teacher.
That wishlist isn't going to fulfill itself.
@@crystanubis Lol
Charity: give away free stuff feed the poor
Charity in 2021: We collected limited amount of product to sell them at stock prices.
Us gamers are the most disenfranchised people on the planet right now.
Lolololol
@@silentndeadly I WHOULD feel bad for ya... but that tax has to come from some where... and I wont even try to start there...
yup
@@GeraintDafis keep your hate speech off this comment section!
Thank you! Finally! a thoughtful explanation of the chip shortage.
Very classy to encourage small businesses like that. Thanks for the info, Linus!
When all the small businesses have been forced closed while Walmart etc.. Is allowed to be open.. Like spending money in rich more crowded companies is safer..
They screwed over the small business...
I have stopped most of my Amazon purchases now and moved them locally and I am far happier..
No more warranty problems and prices that change by the minute..
The rules seem to be more polticol or helping friends over common sense..
In Canada still they are arresting and jailing priests for going to church while they allow monster sprits events full of people..
Just the other day a judge ruled that a priest will be forced to tell his flock about how their faith is wrong and that they need to follow a set of instructions from The judge..
If he doesn't do this then the judge will find him in contempt of court...
Preeists being forced to attack their own faths and replace them with polticol messages or go to jail..
"Sorry, we are currently out of stock." Well, at least I tried 🥺
what were last 2 digits? looking up doesn't work
nvm
@@Badsniperarmy "BA"
@@ladderenjoyer Wait, how did you know?
@@ladderenjoyer spoiler alert..
“Why I downgraded my monitor instead of upgrading my graphics card: an ultrawide story”
lol!!! so did I!
why would you buy an ultrawide in the first place if you didn't have the right GPU to push it? seems kind of dumb honestly
@@colbythibodeau1081 They might have been thinking that in a few months they will get a new GPU... but they were like thinking that last summer
@@colbythibodeau1081 Use your brain dude I bought an ultrawide 5 years ago when my GPU could push it.
@@colbythibodeau1081 Lol. You aren't thinking this comment through. When most of us who have them bought them, our cards could push games that were out. Newer games can't be pushed on these monitors or at this resolution without newer cards as well. I can go back several years when I got mine and run those games no problem...I can't now with games like Warzone without having non-competitive level FPS. Had to buy a smaller monitor instead.
the comment at the end shows so much about linus's heart and moral fiber! Now thats a genuinely good guy!
Thanks to Linus's prediction I pulled the trigger right in time. Thank you Linus.
If you’ve come here looking for clues this is for you:
They were gone before most of us finished the video. I watched the video 1 minute after upload.
I was here around the same time. Watched a bit at 1.5x then scrubbed for the link. Took the quiz and actually got to see the “all items reserved but maybe one will fall through” message for 5 minutes before it was OoS
@@_ac39 I managed to do the quiz aswell. Got stuck on the verifying screen then refreshed to “out of stock”. To be fair they only had 100 of them. I think this is a good way to keep them out of the hands of miners and bots but the supply is still minuscule. Good luck next time my man.
@@jkargoes4glory315 They didn’t have 100. they said on the wan show they had over 500 in stock between the cards.
Lol so me not knowing what the Konami code is didn't matter. GL next!
@@DarkZenith I also have a feeling they said that a supplier sold some that were labled for ltt
GPU shortage
gamers: Wait, it's been gamers all along?
linus: *points gun* Always has been.
What else? There may be some miners, but it's a pretty low percentage of people trying to buy GPUs.
@@jaba1982 miners aim for 1070s and 3060s anyway, since that's the sweetspot for hashrate/watt
@@jaba1982 And people think DELL IS GOOD. XD. NO GPU. *Dream's tea kettle laugh*
@@riccardo1796 RX 5700
@@riccardo1796 it's not the sweet spot when they cost almost as much as the MSRP for a 3080. also your an idiot if you buy pascal GPUs for mining.
I work in a semiconductor fab as a process technician. We don't make CPUs or GPUs but we do make various power regulation devices used in a plethora of consumer goods. Diodes, TVSs, TSPs etc. I can absolutely confirm that 2020 was a great year for us, we made money hand over fist and are now desperately trying to recruit good operators because we were banned from doing so by corporate last year (2019 was not a good year. Redundancies). The two supply issues that we are facing currently is a shortage of semiconductor grade HCL so we have had to change from 99.999% pure to 99.995% pure and monitor processes closely. We also try to switch from HCL to dichloroethene for furnace cleaning. It's cheaper and safer. O2 price has gone up by about 60% over the last year but supply is steady. Other than that the only issue we faced was our assembly plant in China closing for lockdown.
Good message at the end, much respect.. support your local businesses.
the best way to introduce a sponsor: "and this bad news is brought to you by-"
Yet here everyone is talking about it. There is no bad publicity.
Hundreds of hours at factorio have taught me that this can be fixed by mining more iron and copper.
nice
Yeah, but you still have to upgrade the rest of the production chain like smelteries, assemblers, converyer belts, trains, drones.
This will be easy when the new Caves and Cliffs update gets added to Minecraft this year
Then get Amat and lam to build more tools
Thank you so speaking about the entertainment industry, I worked in nonprofit arts and it has been devastating to the industries
10:39 this dude predicts everything
Yeah I was about to comment it
i feel like linus have a gold heart for how it take care of all the business that are suffering this pandemic crysis. u got all my respect, wish there was more people like u. stay a hero
Hmmmm Crysis
Crysis...
Corona isn't an alien invasion (unfortunately?)
you know, I took your advice when you said that there was going to be a chip shortage, so I got a decent computer for around $1,200 at the time and I want to thank you for that
Got mine in November and I'm surprised that it actually got harder to find cheap parts
What cpu and gpu did u get?
same but then best buy threw me for a loop when they had all the parts in a prebuilt for 200$ less than it would be to build it. so i.....and im sorry..... bought a prebuilt.
U lucky SOB
@@lucasjohnson5803 same 😭
I feel like there's a part of the episode cut out about scalpers. I was watching with closed captions
The mining process for the silica for those chips is also extremely involved and very time consuming to purify sand that has to have high purity out of the ground. There is only one of them in the country that I know of, so building more chip factories could be problematic in several ways as well.
As the old saying goes, “nine women can’t make a baby in a month.” 😀
Is this actually a saying? Sounds real enough
thats the old saying you says?...funny..cause im old and have never heard that.
Who said that lmao
But 9 women can make 9 babies in 9 months. That's like 1 baby per month!
@@herbyverstink it is about how management thinks at time that more people can always reduce time needed to get the finished product. While true you cannot have enough people and that will increase how long it will take it is also true you can't just pile on more people to make it go faster without a upper limit at which it will stop being faster due to limits that aren't involved with humans
"This bad news is brought to you by Pulseway!"
*after uploading the video*
Pulseway: *visibly annoyed*
Linus: oops
no bags of money for him
visibly annoyed?
I work at a small computer shop and me have a contract with some local schools to help them with their tech. Since the schools were shut down for awhile they decided to upgrade their security cameras, Network, and started buying PCs, Laptops, and Chromebooks by the hundreds. This might have contributed to the shortages.
that twenty twenty three hit hard
I work as a bartender and I've had a rough couple of months. My old 980 is starting to fail. I know, some people have been hit harder, doesn't make this less hard on me. Yet somehow, even though this situation is fucked up, this video brightened up my outlook. Thanks guys!
Hopefully something works out for you. I’m still with my old 970, which isn’t doing too well by today’s standards.
This video hits even more harder for me. I work for an automotive parts supplier in Ontario, Canada, and we've been facing wave after wave of layoffs both due to covid and the semiconductor shortage, more so the latter. Right now, they gave us a return to work date of May 10th, having been off since March 26th, but even then it is only speculation.
Holy shit guys, stop crying if you don't have an integrated intel gpu
@@AdiXn583 true. I used to use the integrated graphics on my 4570R around 6 months ago, and I could barely play Minecraft at 60fps.
Laughs in Gigabyte 970 Windforce x3 OC Edition.... thats still kicking ass and overclocks past a GTX 980. Still kicking, all 3 fans run still, been running a large overclock 5 years straight daily, and bought it for 100 dollars back when.
I actually appreciate that you guys included the K-shape recovery in this video
That's very nice of you to recommend people shop at local places instead of just online.
thank god i was thinking it's some sort of "we are running out of silicon" thing or something like that
Same here, an actual resource shortage would've been terrifying.
We are using about 3x the earths worth in resources that it can "regenerate", I would not be surprised if we had a resource shortage in our lifetime, but more than likely the next generations are fucked and we are dead anyway. Even sand is getting depleted.
@@SwaggMessiah69 Here's hoping extraterrestrial resource exploitation will also come within our lifetimes, or at the very least before it's too late.