Silicone chip shortage the same on Xbox .

Except they have not addressed main issues of manufacturing issues. You can't increase production if you don't change the main reason production has came to a crashing halt across all tech.

The shortage has everything to do with the availability of the node, not the size. The problem is 5nm isn't being massed produced for the entire industry just yet, only mobile really and Apple / Snapdragon has scopped up the vast majority.

That leaves the vast majority of the industry stuck on the 7nm processing node from mobile, tablets, computers, CPUs, GPUs, cars, consoles, literally almost every major electronic except for NVIDIA (8nm) and Intel (14nm++++++) are on 7nm which is one of the 3 major causes of the shortages.

This is why NVIDIA re-released some RTX 2000 GPUs, to avoid having to deal with competing in bidding wars for 7nm fabrication, and why they're skipping it altogether and going straight to 5nm. When the node split happens 1/3 of the shortage issue will be somewhat alleviated, but that will bring a few / several million consoles into the market each year which is better than where we currently are.

Why are you hung up on the node availability? The reason the nodes availability is low is because of the silicon shortage. Silicon is the base material needed for semiconductor manufacturing. If there's no silicon available then there is no node to make.

"That leaves the vast majority of the industry stuck on the 7nm processing node from mobile, tablets, computers, CPUs, GPUs, cars, consoles, literally almost every major electronic except for NVIDIA (8nm) and Intel (14nm++++++) are on 7nm which is one of the 3 major causes of the shortages."

Again, regardless of it being 7,6,or even 5nm, they all require silicon wafers to be created first which is where the supply VS demand issue is coming from. About three-quarters of the world's total semiconductor manufacturing capacity comes from China, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. And virtually all of the world's advanced semiconductor manufacturing capacity in nodes below ten nanometers is located in South Korea and Taiwan. Companies like Apple, Nvidia, AMD, and a huge range of other companies, are dependent on Samsung and TSMC's manufacturing capacity. And now, there is not enough capacity due to supply VS demand.

While you are correct that some manufacturers switching to different node options will help in regards to how many companies are ordering a specific node and could help with how often products using different node sizes are restocked on store shelves, but it wont make a difference in the silicon shortage because the same material demand is there regardless of what node size is being used. We wont see a substantial difference in the shortages until one of two things happens. Either demand goes down, or more semiconductor factories are built to meet the demand which is in the works by multiple manufacturers.

Intel is a integrated device manufacturer, meaning they rely on themselves for their supply for manufacturing and nobody else which is why we aren't seeing a shortage from them on top of the demand not being as high as AMD's CPU's

Yoshi when they say a silicon shortage I'm pretty sure they're using the word silicon as a catchall phrase for chips. They don't mean a shortage of wafers. And actually switching the node would make a difference if it were a shortage of actual silicon because smaller nodes allow for more chips for the same size wafer. It's like breaking down a dollar into nickels and dimes. You'd get 10 dimes from one dollar (10nm) but 20 nickels (5nm) from the same dollar. Apple is the cause of a huge part of it as well as moving away from Chinese fans through sanctions.

Fully agree. This place is getting worse and worse each day. At least the mods are finally doing something about it.

Sony said the ps5 is going to break even in June and start making profit shortly after, everything else I agree with though.