Copper Foil Shortages Could Drive Motherboard and GPU Prices Upwards

DeathtoGnomes · Sep 30, 2021

TheLostSwede said:
Digitimes is what it is. They write industry related stories and I know for a fact that some of the information passed on in Taiwan can be "coloured" one way or another, often in red (no, not the communis red) and might involve and envelope when someone is really eager to get their view in the media.

Whats a news story without a bit of colour?

MrDweezil · Sep 30, 2021

Oh no, now GPUs might end up being too pricey.

eidairaman1 · Sep 30, 2021

Time to reclaim dead pcbs for copper extraction then...

Susquehannock · Sep 30, 2021

Tigger said:
I saw a thing somewhere that said copper had gone up by 150% I used to be a tatter, that would have been nice, copper is poor mans gold

Depends on your time frame. Copper has risen about 150% in five years. One year has been about 50%. Give or take a few fluctuations. Rhodium is the amazing one. Used in electrical contacts and the like. Was selling for $500 ounce about five years ago and spiked to over $27,000 earlier this year. That's one heck of a chart.

Deleted member 24505 · Sep 30, 2021

Susquehannock said:
Depends on your time frame. Copper has risen about 150% in five years. One year has been about 50%. Give or take a few fluctuations. Rhodium is the amazing one. Used in electrical contacts and the like. Was selling for $500 ounce about five years ago and spiked to over $27,000 earlier this year. That's one heck of a chart.

Wow that's better than gold isn't it.

Susquehannock · Sep 30, 2021

Tigger said:
Wow that's better than gold isn't it.

Considering gold rose roughly 53% vs 5,300% for rhodium in same five year time frame. Yes, very much so. Rh has backed off from the high quite a bit yet still sitting around $13,000.

cadaveca · Sep 30, 2021

eidairaman1 said:
Time to reclaim dead pcbs for copper extraction then...

could you imagine? if things get that bad...wait...recycling is good, right?

Lycanwolfen · Sep 30, 2021

The black outs in China is just the start of going green energy. Rare metals are needed to make green energy which drives of the costs of everything up and up.

Zaqq · Sep 30, 2021

What about prices of cpu coolers? I thought that base and heatpipes are made of nickel-plated copper...

Lionheart · Sep 30, 2021

I feel like this shortage narrative is just gonna have a long domino affect & just creep into every industry over the coming years. Call me paranoid. 1984 here we come.

Deleted member 24505 · Sep 30, 2021

Lionheart said:
I feel like this shortage narrative is just gonna have a long domino affect & just creep into every industry over the coming years. Call me paranoid. 1984 here we come.

Not paranoid, the worlds on a downward slope to fuckedville

eidairaman1 · Sep 30, 2021

Lionheart said:
I feel like this shortage narrative is just gonna have a long domino affect & just creep into every industry over the coming years. Call me paranoid. 1984 here we come.

1984 in the US began in 1992, had a break from it in 2017-2021

RJARRRPCGP · Sep 30, 2021

TheLostSwede said:
And fuel in some countries, plus record high fuel prices for this year.

So far, gas prices still not as bad as 2008! (Bush Jr. was the president, it was his last year before the inauguration of Obama) The second worst, was 2012, the highest under Obama.

mechtech · Sep 30, 2021

Grabbing at straws here now, copper is sold by the pound. Even if it doubled the effect on graphics cards should literally be pennies.

Mussels said:
I feel like buying my 3090 when i did was the right call, i'll be too old to game by the time new ones are in stock

lol

I bought a 2 Ton central AC system for my house for the price of a graphics card.

SCORE!!!!!!!!

AusWolf · Oct 1, 2021

Is there any product or material left that there isn't a shortage of?

TheLostSwede · Oct 1, 2021

RJARRRPCGP said:
So far, gas prices still not as bad as 2008! (Bush Jr. was the president, it was his last year before the inauguration of Obama) The second worst, was 2012, the highest under Obama.

I said this year, but I guess you only read so far.

AusWolf said:
Is there any product or material left that there isn't a shortage of?

Plastic, for now.

Mussels · Oct 1, 2021

AusWolf said:
Is there any product or material left that there isn't a shortage of?

Dumb questions and bad drivers when it rains.

chrcoluk · Oct 1, 2021

TheLostSwede said:
I guess you don't work in the real world? If material costs goes up, every step of the process in getting a product to you, goes up.
$1 at the source is at least $10 to you, depending on how many steps are involved.

Yep, modern day has many middlemen, the more middlemen the greater the gulf between manufacturing cost and retail.

The figures I have seen banded out are a real eye opener.

Not only cost, but when it comes to things like food as well, food can be in the supply chain for weeks before its even available to purchase. A reason why so many preservatives are added.

AusWolf · Oct 1, 2021

Mussels said:
Dumb questions and bad drivers when it rains.

Calling bad drivers material. Spot on! :roll:

RJARRRPCGP · Oct 1, 2021

TheLostSwede said:
I said this year, but I guess you only read so far.

I knew that you were saying this year. 2021 is the highest for U.S.A. since 2014, if not 2013!

I also have been seeing that particularly some big cities, magically get sky-high-gas-prices. It's usually the west or it's Chicago or near there.

TheLostSwede · Oct 1, 2021

RJARRRPCGP said:
I knew that you were saying this year. 2021 is the highest for U.S.A. since 2014, if not 2013!

I also have been seeing that particularly some big cities, magically get sky-high-gas-prices. It's usually the west or it's Chicago or near there.

According to what I saw in the news, 1 litre of petrol costs $2 in Sweden now.

RJARRRPCGP · Oct 1, 2021

TheLostSwede said:
According to what I saw in the news, 1 litre of petrol costs $2 in Sweden now.

Ironically, it looks like it's less than in 2006 there. Where a gent from there posted a rant about the gas prices, before the major 2008 gas crisis at badcaps. net . I thought it was like 9 in USD!

Yes, $7.56-per-gallon, is a ton! I also thought I saw that Italy is on the same boat!

Chomiq · Oct 2, 2021

Ros Atkins On… Global supply chain disruption

Ros Atkins explains how global supply chain problems have led to shortages of some goods in the West.

www.bbc.com

Well we're f'd.

R-T-B · Oct 3, 2021

Chomiq said:
Ros Atkins On… Global supply chain disruption

Ros Atkins explains how global supply chain problems have led to shortages of some goods in the West.

www.bbc.com

Well we're f'd.

Old news at this point.

Luminescent · Oct 4, 2021

From what i understand from news almost everything will go up, it has to do with being "green" and all that, if you use green energy prices will go up, if you don't you get taxed for not being green and prices will go up.
Until there is a change in leadership prices will continue to go up, except giants like apple, they won't be affected by this.

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