5 Cell phone shortages due to the Taiwan earthquake (www.dailymail.co.uk) posted 28 days ago by DrLeaks2 28 days ago by DrLeaks2 +7 / -2 Taiwan quake may drive up price of US tech as chipmakers hit pause The historic 7.2-magnitude earthquake, Taiwan's worst in 25 years, has halted its semiconductor industry - but chipmakers reported minimal damage. The quake killed 9 people 2 comments share 2 comments share save hide report block hide replies
Funny how politicians have been clamoring that we need to go to war over Taiwan because of Muh Chip Shortagez instead of developing our own tech manufacturing sector again.
There have been shortages for years. I saw 2-3x price increase on all sorts over the past few years.
They even had an embargo for a while during the lockdown
Only thing that got cheaper is OLED and eink