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Sabot · Posted: Wed Sep 06, 2023 5:04 pm Post subject:

I’m at a loss why anyone sees this as strange.
Since the industry crash from covid and Ukraine, Arm chips were given to laptop manufacturers (working from home on them obviously) instead of cars, since the whole industry ground to a halt. When it returned, car manufacturers wouldn't commit to parts due to the unstable nature. So silicon suffered. Toyota work to “Just-in-Time” now. Basically cars built as and when ordered, but that again means that they do not order silicon in bulk, only what’s needs or predicted.
Ford who make the Mach E don’t even mass assemble them. 40-60 grand. You can walk into a showroom (I worked at them) there’s Mach E sitting there. Go look at it, sit in it have a test drive and bring out 60k in cash and offer to buy one. Tough! You have to buy your car online. Pick your colour ancillaries and ‘build it’ on a webpage. Then click and buy it, wait for delivery and then get a fanfare and vid sent to you from the asshole managers at the flagship,store. They only build to order!

So here we are talking about manufacturers of PC components.
The exact same principle applies. People hang on to hardware longer (no money due to electricity/food prices/ uncertainty of jobs), which resulted in stock backlog and hardware sitting about. So how do these companies recoup loses? Simple. increase prices, less quality control - less employees - cheaper components. It’s not rocket science, unless you were born recently.
The quality of everything is shit now! Chocolate is smaller, meat is astronomically expensive
Nothing you buy today will outlast what you bought 5,10,15 years ago. Be it TVs, cars, consoles or PC hardware.

I still have a legacy pc that has its original HDDs,CPU,PSU,RAM,MoBo and GPU that I built and it still fires up and plays after 16 years running Win 10.

Get used to it because the world has changed and it ain’t going to go back pre covid. This is the new norm.