TAIPEI—When buyers need chips in a pinch, they turn to Erik Drown, a middleman who is able to source scarce parts.. Asked recently by a client to help find 1,200 chips in a matter of days, Mr. Drown scoured his industry contacts. He couldn’t find all the needed chips but was able to get preliminary price quotes on about half.
It is a painful truth for businesses world-wide: They need chips but can’t find them. Making matters worse is that the typical problem solvers—chip brokers and middlemen such as Mr. Drown—find themselves in some cases just as perplexed and empty-handed. Yet they are busier and making more profits than ever.
“A lot of companies that would never go to someone like me, they have to because if they don’t, they’re not going to survive,” said Mr. Drown, global sourcing director at Select Technology Inc., an electronic-components distributor based in Rowley, Mass.that remains widespread and is likely to continue through the end of the year, say chip makers, wholesalers and buyers.
Due to the pandemic, there's less offer and growing demand... But an old economy rule was broken and the situation got worse: -Some kinds of semiconductor is under few manufacturers hands, and they're not so much worried about the overprices or the impact in supply chain.
Just an excuse to make more $$$.
Capitalism is looking for Southeast Asia to bail them out. Weird times
DougieP2016 Birds202020 smh meanwhile JJWatt's hogging half the worlds supply on his shoulder. selfish imo
They all in our blood from the vaccine
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