(Card credit: Intel). Audioplayer loading volume. The new Omicron variant spread rapidly around the world and hopes of a quick end to the pandemic fade into the rearview mirror, the swindling hopes for the quick end of widespread chip supply rely on us, and this swindling also leaves a discontent in the rearview mirror. In an interview with Nikkei Asia, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger said he didn’t expect the ongoing chip shortage to ease in 2023. The plans for your new gaming rig may have to be delayed even longer. Gelsingers comments came during his South East Asia business trip, where Intel announced a 7.1 B investment to expand its manufacturing in Malaysia. He warned me that he expects to get new money from Intel, because it would come soon. It is well to see all major semiconductor manufacturers buy some money and invest them so the world can protect against future supply shocks. It seems that these facilities are still starting overnight. Gelsinger himself said that adding manufacturing capacity can take at least three years to produce a product. Intels announced expansions in the USA, Israel and Ireland. It was already a long time ago that Intels was planning to expand its production. Gaming has the best GPUs: top chips from Intel and AMD. The best card: your perfect pixel-pusher awaits your perfect pixel-perfect card. Best SSD for gaming: take the rest of the game before you go in. Several big tech executives have made statements over the last few months with forecasts of production improvements in 2022, or even oversupply. But with the Omicron variant spreading quickly, it feels like expectations are being reset. There’s a feeling one step ahead and two step back. And it is not just pandemic. There is the US-China trade war, China-Taiwan and Russia-Ukraine concerns, protectionism, and even weather, such as those which affected Texas earlier in 2021. It is not all doom and gloom, though. Disruptions from global supply chains are partly due to strict lockdown and precautionary quarantines, something that governments tend to impose on large scale. It is obviously critical for global supply chain to keep factories up and running. Mohamed Azmin Ali, the minister for International Trade and Industry, said that I’ve assured Pat (Gelsinger) that no longer lockdown, only targeted ones. It seems that it’s a trend, but now it looks like Covid-19 isn’t becoming endemic. Sadly, the return to normal life in 2022 seems to be becoming increasingly unrealistic. It is unlikely that the consoles can still disappear once a list is made available and the GPU is not going to disappear. The computing problem is both a demand and a supply problem. From the moment we turn to the Ethereum-era plan, the currency will lose. The investments that began from the pandemic will gradually start to grow to 10 and 2023. Let’s hope the gamers enjoyed holiday season in 2022. There isn’t any way to build a new gaming rig at the moment, but it’s still far more expensive than it should be.
