News Motherboard and GPU Pricing Under Pressure Due to Copper Foil Shortage

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Rising costs add pressure on manufacturers amid the chip supply crisis.

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[artk2219]

Sweet, another reason for even more expensive commodity items, awesome. Realistically its not a huge deal on a consumer level, but for OEM's with already tight profit margins, not the best news.

 

[Krotow]

The message for general public - no consumer electronics for you in any form for next 100 years - give or take. Go back to countryside and start living as peasants.

 

[Kridian]

Tap Alaska and be done with these Eastern scare tactics.

 

[hotaru251]

The message for general public - no consumer electronics for you in any form for next 100 years - give or take. Go back to countryside and start living as peasants.

insert Weird Al Yankovic's Amish Paradise song

 

[thisisaname]

For me the TL;DR of this is no the copper price rise will not increase the price of good due to the small amount used. The price will be raised due increases in energy and transport costs.

 

[spongiemaster]

Fed Ex adds buffet tables at airport terminals. Fatter pilots increasing jet fuel usage. Chip prices going up.

 

[Deleted member 2783327]

As Klaus Schwab said "You will have nothing and be happy".
Here when something fails it ends up as landfill. There is no attempt to recycle anything except plastics.
No wonder there are shortages of all of these metals; silicon, gold, silver and so on.

 

[lazyabum]

Copper still abundant in the world. It's obviously lack of production.

 

[albundyhere]

The message for general public - no consumer electronics for you in any form for next 100 years - give or take. Go back to countryside and start living as peasants.

way ahead of you. bought a 2nd house with land right before covid hit, and been "working from home" ever since, haha. the family loves it out here. none of us ever want to go back to the city. what for? to get infected and live in misery? anyhoo, i'm not using as much tech as i used too...too busy enjoying the outdoors. peasant life is good when you've got money.