floofloof@lemmy.ca to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 24 hours agoMotherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AIwww.tomshardware.comexternal-linkmessage-square108linkfedilinkarrow-up1532arrow-down13file-text
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minus-squaremsage@programming.devlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up10·8 hours agoCan we create a fund with gamers, and then buy the manufacturers that go under? We need just one of each, MB, PS, GPU, hopefully something for CPU will be buyable as well.
minus-squareboonhet@sopuli.xyzlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·7 hours agoFor CPU and GPU, our options are mostly TSMC, Samsung and Intel. Nvidia and AMD don’t really have fabs. Any of those can also help with the other chips on a motherboard. Samsung also do NAND so they’d be the best to acquire.
minus-squareUpgrayedd1776@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up3·4 hours agoI think Samsung is going to get hit with helium shortages which are needed in fab, outside of hormuz the US is the only one with a locked supply
Can we create a fund with gamers, and then buy the manufacturers that go under?
We need just one of each, MB, PS, GPU, hopefully something for CPU will be buyable as well.
For CPU and GPU, our options are mostly TSMC, Samsung and Intel. Nvidia and AMD don’t really have fabs. Any of those can also help with the other chips on a motherboard. Samsung also do NAND so they’d be the best to acquire.
I think Samsung is going to get hit with helium shortages which are needed in fab, outside of hormuz the US is the only one with a locked supply