Chip shortages and high prices will continue throughout 2022 –

It is clear that something is failing and as always the most affected are us, but what we did not expect is that according to the giant TSMC, the squash crisps and high prices will follow throughout 2022.

Bad news for everyone, because it seems that we are going to be with a chip shortage for a long time for many sectors. This has been notified by TSMC, the largest chip manufacturer.

This information comes through Wei Zhejia, CEO of TSMC, which has presented a financial report for the third quarter showing data on this great shortage problem.

To position you, SMC held an online conference yesterday October 14, where it answered several questions from some analysts from different sectors, where Wei Zhejia reiterated many times that the production capacity is tight and that the excess supply will not change until 2022.

In addition, TSMC Treasurer Huang Renzhao also spoke, explaining that to support customer demand, capex this year will remain at $ 30 billion.

He also clarified that this shortage of chips would last a long time, specifically said that according to his studies it could last throughout the year 2022, and very possibly things would already return to normal well into 2023.

We already explained this to you in another news item, where Sony would have spoken with TSMC to build a new factory in Japan to increase the production of chips for PlayStation 5, but unfortunately, this takes time, an average of a year and a half or 2 to construction and a minimum of 6 months for mass manufacturing.

TMSC is the one who manufactures the chips for Radeon AMD graphics, Ryzen micros, and chips for Xbox Series X and PlayStation 5

So doing calculations, we would not see a constant flow of chips until the middle of the year 2023, something that can worry a lot to those who want to buy a new graphics card or a new console, be it Xbox Series X or PlayStation 5.

Although not only part of the problem is said shortage of chips, it must be remembered that from the manufacturer there are many companies that also want to take advantage of this situation by increasing their prices in transport, distribution, retailers, and much more, without forgetting the miners , which have agreements with several assemblers to receive hundreds every X weeks.

So we can only wait and endure with our current graphics and consoles until things improve little by little, although you can always be attentive to the Twitter channels where they warn of when and where there is stock of both graphics and consoles.