Chip shortage: Toyota to cut global production by 40%

Post by dylan604 » Thu, Aug 19, 2021, 5:46 PM UTC

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So, apparently the best opening salvo is to take out USA comms satellites and that essentially cripples American offensive capabilities. Modern tomahawks are heavily reliant on comms networks to hit long-range ground targets. Plus, any destroyer launching these at targets deep in Chinese territory will be within range of Chinese missiles. And, as we saw in Syria, Russian air defense systems are pretty effective again…

>So, apparently the best opening salvo is to take out USA comms satellites and that essentially cripples American offensive capabilities. Modern tomahawks are heavily reliant on comms networks to hit long-range ground targets. No they aren't. They were designed with the assumption that GPS wouldn't be available and instead will rely on terrain tracking. >Plus, any destroyer launching these at targets deep in Chinese…

Post by duncanawoods » Thu, Aug 19, 2021, 5:49 PM UTC

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It's a puzzle to me why companies like nvidia didn't just raise prices and instead left both customers and profit to the dirty world of scalpers. I guess it's "brand damage" but I feel there would be something more fair and honest if in times of tight supply they ran their own ebay-like store and auctioned them off. It wouldn't feel like a price hike and prices could automatically settle as supply/demand reaches pari…

Some, like this MSI subsidary, were actually selling on ebay at scalper prices. > MSI has admitted that one of its subsidiaries has been selling RTX 3080 graphics cards on eBay at almost double the MSRP. > The controversy first appeared on Reddit, where users accused MSI of scalping its own RTX 3080 graphics cards on eBay under the name Starlit Partner. Since, it’s been confirmed in a Justia Trademarks listing that S…

Post by mindslight » Thu, Aug 19, 2021, 5:50 PM UTC

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I don't see that raising prices would make consuming companies want to stock up less. A company that requires an input to manufacturing is going to have a pretty steep price-demand curve for every individual component. Even if prices for one of their scarce inputs doubles, they're still going to buy as much as they can rather than risk shutting down their entire production if they run out. Since their competitors are…

> they'll just raise their own prices to compensate. That's how it works in econ 101, but not necessarily in practice. Prices on many goods are less flexible than commodities like oil and lumber, for many reasons. Manufacturers may be locked into fixed-price contracts or distribution agreements, for example. Or a scarce component might be shared across "budget" and "premium" product lines, but the budget line is too…

Post by baybal2 » Thu, Aug 19, 2021, 5:52 PM UTC

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Yes. One scary fact that I learned is that, in war games between China and the USA, China almost always wins due to superior production capacity. Those $100B American battle carriers and $40MM advanced fighter jets can be taken out by $50,000 rockets/missiles produced at a rate of hundreds or thousands per day.

Explain how a war between nuclear superpowers ends with anyone winning?

Post by zsmi » Thu, Aug 19, 2021, 5:58 PM UTC

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This makes it easier for the US to spin up more, since we gain more trained workers who understand these processes.

I thought similarly - this is true if we can have lossless knowledge transfer. I imagine we would have to put what is learned into practice before translating it into distributed knowledge for a US fab workforce.