Vayra86 Not sure if you're thát blind or just oblivious, but...



clevertap.com/blog/mobile-growth-statistics/#Global



In the past ten-fifteen years, a whole new world has sprung out of mobile. Its a device we use ALONGSIDE other devices, it doesn't replace anything - yet. And then there are tablets... laptops... your work laptop, the desktop for your son/daughter, etc etc etc.



Every household now has many more devices than a single PC and one or two TV's. Each of those devices uses a complete set of storage, RAM, chipset, processor. And let's not forget about the innovations as well like mobile speakers and all the other IoT stuff.



Its very logical that demand has surged and that supply is struggling to keep up.

EVERY SINGLE TIME

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2019 before they ramp up their production capabilities, thereby ensuring at least another 1-3 years of sustained price jacking.....

blind....nopeoblivious....no f'in waylogical.....nOtKnowledgable of the (real) business world:seem to forget (or are oblivious to) the fact that these same companies that make all the devices you mentioned have to either make or contract out for their memory/storage/chipsets/processors. This is a process that starts way before the product(s) are launched and is something that does not happen overnight...Therefore, if the parts producers know, well in advance, that they will be making the parts for a certain device(s), how is it that, they can't (or won't) seem to plan for and/or allocate production capability (or build new factories) for those parts in time to prevent, rather than ensure, a bonafide shortage of said parts?Answer is they could, but then there would beartificial price jacking allowed, and everyone would just have to get by on the real-world prices and corresponding revenue to build their profit nesteggs...... something they dare not contemplate in today's "milk it, bilk it, or leave it" business environment....In other words, Samsung knew about the decline in HDD's and the increasing interest in and demand for more/bigger/better/faster SSD's/NAND/Flash storage over 7 years ago, yet it will be'nuff said, rant over, y'all can now return to your regularly scheduled programming :D