Why is there a massive CPU and GPU shortage?

There is a massive shortage for AMD CPUs and Intel CPUs. There also massive shortage for NVIDIA GeForce RTX 3000 Series and AMD GPUs. And also the new consoles like PS5 and xBox.

Spock (rhp)2021-03-22T12:22:26Z

cryptocurrency miners have bid up prices trying for those 50k payoffs

Jesus2021-03-22T01:37:08Z

We get most of our stuff from China. Right now the big factories are affected by covid

?2021-03-21T23:52:12Z

One it raises the prices and two it's all made somewhere else now and 3 free market economies do things that manipulate the prices though none of it is sustainable and fails leaving few choices and only one inevitable outcome...

N.Shadows