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Re: Lead time for new Intel NIC orders is quoted around 52 weeks

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Post by nradov »

cedilla wrote: post #51
Factorium wrote: post #24

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Life continued as normal in Sweden, Russia, Belarus... the pandemic 'response' was driven by the media and politicians. If there is surge of deaths in nursing homes (typically 50% of COVID deaths), it has no impact on the rest of the economy. Many of those same politicians later benefitted to tune of millions of dollars from advance knowledge of federal bank intervention in markets. If there was no lockdown, this opp…

Life didn't continue in Sweden for about 14,000 people that died to COVID due to the lack of proper response, or hundreds of thousands with long COVID. Sweden had the best requisites to come out of the pandemic largely unscathed, like its neighbour Norway. Instead they decided to just let people get sick and die. edit: The nonsense about Vitamin D at the end is almost hilarious. We're talking about Sweden, right? The…

Vitamin D supplementation is common in Sweden. There is only a weak correlation between latitude and vitamin D levels. Hypovitaminosis D is a serious risk factor for COVID-19.

https://vitamin-d-covid.shotwell.ca/

Re: Lead time for new Intel NIC orders is quoted around 52 weeks

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Post by tenpies »

CydeWeys wrote: post #25
goalieca wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Every economic forecast I read in April 2020 assumed things would be open by q3/q4 last year.

Sounds like that forecast was wrong then. Also, you should've been looking at the forecasts from epidemiologists, not economists. Viruses don't care about what economists want.

Unfortunately - and as we can continue to see - there is nothing stopping scientists from being political mouth pieces. "Trust the science" comes with a huge asterisk: only the science of the approved scientific speaker by the approved political party and only of the approved narrative.

The scientists that spoke out against this were quickly shunned, the wagons circled, and when evidence became to crushing to hold the narrative, history was simply re-written via gaslighting.

With economists at least we know they will regularly be wrong and that you will openly see differing schools of thought on even the most foundational of issues.

Re: Lead time for new Intel NIC orders is quoted around 52 weeks

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Post by newbamboo »

howmayiannoyyou wrote: post #79
brink wrote: post #2

Whatever your opinion is about the lockdowns, there is one thing everyone should be able to agree on; they destabilize just about everything. I'm worried about people going hungry or not being able to heat their home this winter from the ripple effects.

Lockdowns are not the whole story, just a major contributing factor. Other factors: - China energy shortages forcing rolling blackouts. - Long standing under investment in older chip fab manufacturing (eg. auto industry). - Long standing under investment in US port infrastructure, causing unprecedented shipping backlogs. - Copper foil shortage due to over reliance on Chinese sources. - Covid negative impact on childc…

- inflation

Re: Lead time for new Intel NIC orders is quoted around 52 weeks

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Post by lelandfe »

tailspin2019 wrote: post #14
eljimmy wrote: post #10

Earlier quoted context omitted.

It's true - China's numbers, unsurprisingly, really don't give light to how badly they were impacted. I remember reading about how they were building brand new hospitals to cope. Literally building a brand new hospital. https://www.cnbc.com/2020/01/31/pictures-china-builds-two-ho... Looking back on that, it's interesting to think about how that should have been a major warning sign of things to come for the rest of t…

> Literally building a brand new hospital. We built multiple temporary hospitals in the UK too. And albeit not so widely reported, temporary morgues. To be honest I assumed a whole bunch of countries were doing this...

Yeah, NYC saw "temporary morgues" as well, in the form of refrigerated shipping containers. One of the more resonant memories of the pandemic from last year to me.

Re: Lead time for new Intel NIC orders is quoted around 52 weeks

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Post by stagger87 »

Aissen wrote: post #69
formerly_proven wrote: post #4

Currently working on a new design for a client, it's quite a pain. Lots of things, even mundane things like connectors and such are out of stock / low stock and usually quite a bit more expensive.

Yes, you design for what you can order instead of ordering what's in your design.

Parts are going from in-stock to multi-year lead times within a single design iteration. uC's/passives/FPGAs/etc.

Re: Lead time for new Intel NIC orders is quoted around 52 weeks

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Post by tyrfing »

Factorium wrote: post #24
CydeWeys wrote: post #5

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Weird to blame the lockdowns when the real cause was the pandemic. It's not like everyone was going to continually working normally in crowded spaces with people dropping like flies in the hospitals. China especially was hit so incredibly badly in that first wave; it was always gonna go pear-shaped no matter what.

Life continued as normal in Sweden, Russia, Belarus... the pandemic 'response' was driven by the media and politicians. If there is surge of deaths in nursing homes (typically 50% of COVID deaths), it has no impact on the rest of the economy. Many of those same politicians later benefitted to tune of millions of dollars from advance knowledge of federal bank intervention in markets. If there was no lockdown, this opp…

> If there was no lockdown, this opportunity would not have occurred. There was a clear conflict of interest.

Your cited example is from before the WHO even declared a pandemic, and 1 day after the first case of community spread was reported in the US.

> Life continued as normal in Sweden, Russia, Belarus... If there is surge of deaths in nursing homes (typically 50% of COVID deaths), it has no impact on the rest of the economy.

Sweden GDP: -8.6% Q2 2020. Russia: -9.6 Q2 2020. Those are massive shifts to say "no impact".

Lastly: lockdowns have mostly exempted industrial production like Intel and only required operational changes.

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Post by newbamboo »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #16
brink wrote: post #2

Whatever your opinion is about the lockdowns, there is one thing everyone should be able to agree on; they destabilize just about everything. I'm worried about people going hungry or not being able to heat their home this winter from the ripple effects.

Blaming lockdowns isn’t the full story. Demand for electronics is way, way up. Everything from people being bored at home to extra stimulus dollars has put extra demand on everything electronic. The effect is amplified as companies are panic-buying every part they might possibly need for the next few years.

- inflation

Re: Lead time for new Intel NIC orders is quoted around 52 weeks

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Post by newbamboo »

PragmaticPulp wrote: post #37
bgorman wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Demand for electronics being up is directly correlated to lockdowns. PCs had been a declining sector for years before covid lockdowns.

Demand for cars is way up, too, which isn’t expected in lockdown conditions.

- inflation

Re: Lead time for new Intel NIC orders is quoted around 52 weeks

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Post by wayoutthere »

skocznymroczny wrote: post #55
typon wrote: post #49

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Why is blatant misinformation and conspiracy theory allowed on HN?

HN used to attract people who value personal freedom and freedom of speech. Seems like not anymore, like other online societies it fell victim to 'curb liberties for greater good' philosophy. Unfortunately for them, almost every single authoritarian or even totalitarian system uses the same excuse.

Really? Been here long? Because HN has been a shit show the entire time. Like the valley itself, HN has always been a political battleground between the ancaps and the demsocs.
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