it has been over 6 month now that the alleged rtx ampere cards would be available
 
so today i found one rx 6900 xt for double msrp so looking in on rtx cards was zilch as usual
 
I have ranted lots about the shortgages of video cards

lucky for you, zilch in canada
 
I have checked for other hardware and a PSU > 650W is hard to find as well
 
 

The one RX 6900 XT was double MSRP so I am balking at that. Nobody likes paying double or something.
 
 

Sadly stock of the RTX 3080 and RTX 3090 are nearly impossible to find. According to all of the news sources I have read, it appears things won't get better until after Q1 2021. 

Yeah, ridiculously hard to get graphics cards & power supplies and AMD cpu's  -- yet everything else seems to be available .? 
 
From motherboards, memory, ssd, hard drives, monitors, TV's ,cell phones,  almost every other type of electronics all seem to be pretty available ( which makes me wonder how that's possible )

Global chip shortages expected to last into 2022
 

Forward-looking: Are you hoping the worldwide chip shortage will come to an end soon? Sadly, the current situation of demand far outweighing supply is predicted to last for another three or four quarters, followed by a further one or two quarters before inventories reach normal levels. If that's accurate, it'll be sometime in 2022 before the industry gets back to normal.

We've seen pretty much every market where the end product uses a chip suffer in the global shortage, with automobiles, PC hardware, and games consoles hit hardest.
The biggest issue has been Covid-19 and the stay-at-home orders. With most of the world suddenly switching to remote working, and home-based entertainment products becoming the norm as everything from bars to cinemas pauses trading, demand for PCs, laptops, TVs, consoles, etc. reached unprecedented levels.
Exacerbating the issue has been the increasingly complex manufacturing process making chips more difficult to produce, the larger number of chips in every device, logistical problems, and package shortages. The China/US trade war saw companies trying to stockpile chips in advance, putting further pressure on manufacturers.
 
With production already struggling to meet demand over the previous two years, the problem came to a head in 2020.
MarketWatch writes that normality is still a long way off. "We believe semi companies are shipping 10% to 30% below current demand levels and it will take at least 3-4 quarters for supply to catch up with demand and then another 1-2 quarters for inventories at customers/distribution channels to be replenished back to normal levels," said Harlan Sur, an analyst with J.P. Morgan.
Susquehanna Financial analyst Christopher Rolland said chip shortages would worsen as we head into spring as economies open up following lockdown easing and continuing vaccine rollouts. Lead times—the length of time between an order being placed and delivery—are entering a "danger zone" of above 14 weeks, the longest they've been since 2018.
 
"We do not see any major correction on the horizon, given ongoing supply constraints as well as continued optimism about improving demand in 2H21," wrote Stifel analyst Matthew Sheerin. "We remain more concerned with continued supply disruptions, and increased materials costs, than we do an imminent multi-quarter inventory correction."
While all this might be good news for chipmakers who have seen their stock prices soar, it's leaving consumers frustrated as attempts to buy the latest products prove fruitless. Wafer producers increased their output 40 percent in December, and the Biden administration is getting involved, but this problem isn't going away anytime soon.
 
https://www.techspot.com/news/88727-global-chip-shortages-expected-last-2022.html
 
 
 
.....so yeah things are not going to improve for another year
 
6 Quarters before it returns to normal

Xavier Zepherious
TSMC Using Water Tankers For Chip Production As 5nm Plant Faces Rationing
 
The Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) is currently facing water shortages for its chip production as Taiwan fears entering a drought. While chip fabrication requires access to the latest equipment, materials, research and facilities, another crucial part of the production process is access to water. An ongoing lack of consistent rains in Taiwan has put chipmakers in a frenzy to order water tankers as they ramp up production to keep with the demand boom for semiconductors as the world adjusts to remote working and consumer electronics and enterprise product sales rise.

TSMC, Other Chipmakers Fight Water Problems Amidst Aggressive Chip Production

Current problems of the water shortage were foreseen by Taiwanese chip companies last year, as the lack of an annual typhoon drove down the supply of water available to residents. This made officials introduce restrictions to manage the drought, which targetted the agricultural and chip sector as well.
 
To solve the shortage, TSMC is ordering tankers that contain 20 tons or roughly 53,000 gallons of water at a cost of $1,000/truck. Given the large water consumption of the chip-making process, it's clear that an equally large number of water tankers is required to meet the company's needs - and this fact is evident from the water tanker shortage that TSMC and other chipmakers' demand has created in surrounding areas.
 
https://wccftech.com/tsmc...plant-faces-rationing/

The dumb thing about this is it's an infrastructure issue. This tells me TSMC did not properly plan out their site based on needs. This is incompetence IMHO.

think of it more as a monsoon season  - they need heavy rain in one season to get them thru the rest
changing weather patterns do not help
 

somebody messaged me a link from taiwan a few days ago, the problem is very severe over there