Featured Chip shortage 2.0 starting now. Goodbye affordable EVs and hybrids.

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  1. Isaac Zachary

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    #1 Isaac Zachary, Feb 24, 2026
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    Your article is from last Fall just before tens of billions in value in AI investments were wiped out, which means there's going to be a massive amount of chips being manufactured for AI that aren't going to be purchased as planned: https://money.usnews.com/investing/news/articles/2026-02-16/big-tech-stocks-lose-billions-as-ai-spending-fears-hit-valuations

    There's also lots of dishonest Enron style accounting going on with AI investment valuation: Report Details the Sketchy Technique Allegedly Inflating Valuations of AI Companies

    However it is true that prices are going up due to general corruption, tariffs, inflation, supply and demand fluctuation of lots of other essential ingredients are inevitably going to make vehicles way more expensive than projected.
     
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    That's not what the experts are saying even recently. Sure, a few billion dollars worth of AI plans have been scrapped. That's not affecting the other trillions.
     
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    #4 Isaac Zachary, Mar 1, 2026 at 12:27 PM
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    It will be like covid all over again
     
    #5 bisco, Mar 1, 2026 at 1:46 PM
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    Of course what may happen to the markets starting tomorrow may be so damaging that most of the companies hoarding all the RAM are no longer going to have the financial leverage to do so.
     
    #6 PriusCamper, Mar 1, 2026 at 2:01 PM
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    Do we have to wear masks to buy chips?

    Mike
     
    #7 3PriusMike, Mar 2, 2026 at 3:18 AM
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    Yes, but pull it down before trying to eat them
     
    #8 bisco, Mar 2, 2026 at 1:41 PM
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