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Guess I'll find the old ones at the back of my cupboard for the time being ... oh wait. A 16MB SD card. Those were the days.
Why isn't production scaling to meet demand?
Shouldn't the market address this.
It is the law of inertia, it applies to many more situations than we think. Markets is one of the, especially large-scale ones.
Building production facilities isn't like flipping a switch.
Building these factories goes way beyond "nontrivial". We may see a few come online in a couple of years though, but time will tell if the extra capacity alleviates the crunch.
A chip fab costs a billion dollars to build.
Modern cutting edge ones, yes. Not all fabs, by a long shot.
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