The New Chip Shortage is Passive Components

[chrcoluk]

I know you are saying this in jest but it actually started a few months back (we buy pallets of cardboard boxes of various sizes)

Cardboard prices reach record high amid e-commerce demand

Box producers are running on lean inventories, as online buying booms and creates greater demand for packaging materials.

www.supplychaindive.com

I guess I was too slow.

 

[ThaiTaffy]

I'm not even sure their is a shortage here on Thailand just idiot scalpers and retail stores setting prices so high even the rich people look at the tag and say they can't afford it.

 

[TheLostSwede]

I'm not even sure their is a shortage here on Thailand just idiot scalpers and retail stores setting prices so high even the rich people look at the tag and say they can't afford it.

That just adds to the problem. It's really a perfect storm, because even if these companies were running at full tilt, there's the shipping issues.
Apparently some of the passive component makers have been shipping by air to get their products to their customers, which normally just wouldn't happen, as it's prohibitively expensive for something as "cheap" as these parts.

 

[ThaiTaffy]

As I've said a good friend of the family back in the UK is one of the co owners of kolvox computers a pretty old system and networking company he still has distributors he deals with and when I told him how much I paid for my rx 570 he laughed and asked what I wanted I think it took him 3 week's to get me a Asus ekwb edition of the 3070 not sure if he dropped the price because he felt bad for me or not but I got it for £750 so all the factors to this whole shit show must be crazy.

 

[Franzen4Real]

Well... I guess drinking beer is only that's left.

Hops/barley shortage incoming...

 

[Dave65]

The companies who are taking up the so called "slack" are quite slack themselves in quality, am I right or not I haven't kept up?

 

[TheLostSwede]

Hops/barley shortage incoming...

Actually... The harvests this year in many regions have apparently been awful, not just for grains, but also grapes and what not...
If you thought 2020 was a bad, look no further than to 2021 for a worse one...

The companies who are taking up the so called "slack" are quite slack themselves in quality, am I right or not I haven't kept up?

It most likely depends. I would guess the Taiwanese companies would be acceptable replacements, but the PRC ones, maybe not so much.
I mean, Gigabyte should be all I have to say here. Maybe PSU as well.

 

[Space Lynx]

Actually... The harvests this year in many regions have apparently been awful, not just for grains, but also grapes and what not...
If you thought 2020 was a bad, look no further than to 2021 for a worse one...


It most likely depends. I would guess the Taiwanese companies would be acceptable replacements, but the PRC ones, maybe not so much.
I mean, Gigabyte should be all I have to say here. Maybe PSU as well.

rofl

I will say this for Gigabyte though, the industry changes fast and there is time to redeem themselves when next gen comes out. I remember only 1-2 generations ago ASRock was awesome and best bang for buck, many + reps on every forum I read, but this last release of chips... the worst performing VRM's across every budget, mediocre reviews across the board etc.

It always swings back and forth. Though at this point I'd probably just buy Asus stuff, its a premium in price but worth it.

 

[R-T-B]

And when is the next flooding because a someone stumbled over a bucket of water?

Don't confuse fake stuff with real pandemic lockdowns.

Cardboard shortage next to be announced?

Global pandemic makes that possible. Do not taunt fate.

 

[Wirko]

I know you are saying this in jest but it actually started a few months back (we buy pallets of cardboard boxes of various sizes)

Someone said "pallets"?

Pallet Prices Up 400% Amid Shortage

 

[Tardian]

Capacitor manufacturing pipeline lacks capacity.

 

[R-T-B]

Someone said "pallets"?

Pallet Prices Up 400% Amid Shortage

Everything you can imagine is in short supply. Some are just worse than others.

 

[Tardian]

Global shortage of shipping containers highlights their importance in getting goods to Amazon warehouses, store shelves and your door in time for Christmas

Before the container was standardized, loading and unloading goods was very labor-intensive, inefficient and costly.

theconversation.com

A recent shortage of these containers is raising costs and snarling supply chains of thousands of products across the world. The situation highlights the importance of the simple yet essential cargo containers that, from a distance, resemble Lego blocks floating on the sea.

World Trade at stake.

 

[mechtech]

Yes...

My all personal projects are on HOLD.... Premium part orders are back in supply only next year...

Well... I guess drinking beer is only that's left.

Chatting with my Mikrotik friends, they suffer from it even longer, like a year and cannot even push out premium product lines... Private sector was the last to take a hit.

ya at least beer hasn't skyrocketed in price

 

[Ferrum Master]

ya at least beer hasn't skyrocketed in price

Well, considering I am consuming only craft ones... it hasn't been cheap ever. ~10€ per pint.

On the other hand, COVID has forced some Top US breweries to ship to EU, that they never did before, as they cannot sell them enough locally anymore and explore different means to sell their stuff. It is one of the rare positive things this pandemic has brung to me.

 

[mechtech]

Well, considering I am consuming only craft ones... it hasn't been cheap ever. ~10€ per pint.

On the other hand, COVID has forced some Top US breweries to ship to EU, that they never did before, as they cannot sell them enough locally anymore and explore different means to sell their stuff. It is one of the rare positive things this pandemic has brung to me.

hmmm weird, beer status quo here in Canada, typically $40 CAD for a case of 24 bottles at 335mL.

 

[8tyone]

No one saw this coming, no one? How come this be possible?!

 

[Ferrum Master]

hmmm weird, beer status quo here in Canada, typically $40 CAD for a case of 24 bottles at 335mL.

That's pisswasser not beer.

 

[MentalAcetylide]

It shows the same problem as always, the world can't be dependent on 1 or 2 countries to manufacture vital components but i doubt any lessons will be learn from this. Race to the bottom, make shit as cheap as possible.

I wonder what the wages are in those countries. Companies don't want to pay much for labor so they move all the operations to where the labor is cheap.

Nah, they were both younger than me...
Coil whine drives me nuts, but in all fairness, it only happened when you transmitted data over the 5GHz radio, which they apparently hadn't tested...
This is why it's important you test all parts of a product before you ok an a design.

Yeah, that's what happens to them when they want to drive around in their vehicles with the music cranked up loud enough to register as an earthquake from a mile away.

 

[mechtech]

That's pisswasser not beer.

That's pisswasser not beer.

Lol no argument there. Stella was decent when it was brewed in Europe. It doesn’t taste the same with labbatts brewing it. But that’s a whole different thread.

 

[Wirko]

But that’s a whole different thread.

Or maybe not ... Beer can be regarded as a passive component or an active component, depending on the quality.

 

[ThaiTaffy]

https://wolfstreet.com/2021/09/26/s...halt-production-amid-chinas-energy-crackdown/ just spotted this seems component shortage is going to get real fast.