{"id":370408,"date":"2025-10-26T13:41:54","date_gmt":"2025-10-26T13:41:54","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/chip-shortage-affecting-console-supplies-will-last-into-2022\/"},"modified":"2025-10-26T13:41:54","modified_gmt":"2025-10-26T13:41:54","slug":"chip-shortage-affecting-console-supplies-will-last-into-2022","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/chip-shortage-affecting-console-supplies-will-last-into-2022\/","title":{"rendered":"Chip Shortage Affecting Console Supplies Will Last Into 2022"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/arcader.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/10\/chip-shortage-affecting-console-supplies-will-last-into-2022.png\" width=\"800\" height=\"450\" alt=\"\" typeof=\"Image\" class=\"image-style-body-default\" \/> <\/p>\n<p>We\u2019re almost a year out from the releases of both the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/09\/14\/ssd-expansion-and-user-experience-changes-headline-tomorrows-playstation-5-firmware\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">PlayStation 5<\/a> and the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/04\/28\/xbox-q3-sales-show-232-percent-growth-thanks-to-xbox-series-x-and-s-huge-boost-for\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Xbox Series X\/S<\/a>, and the prevailing topic for the generation isn\u2019t the games you can play on the new hardware but how hard it is to get your hands on a console. According to an executive at AMD, the chip supplier for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2018\/09\/12\/amd-suggests-they-are-helping-sony-and-microsoft-build-consoles-with-new-tech\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Sony and Microsoft\u2019s<\/a> gaming machines, the drought is not quite at an end. Though, there is light at the end of the tunnel.<\/p>\n<p>From a recent <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cnbc.com\/2021\/09\/27\/amd-ceo-lisa-su-says-chip-shortage-likely-to-end-next-year.html\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">CNBC article<\/a>, AMD CEO Lisa Su described the component supply for even the start of 2022 as \u201clikely tight.\u201d The shortage has been caused by an increase in demand since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. With companies and consumers transitioning to an at-home workplace, the parts manufacturers use to build devices like laptops and desktop computers were bought up quickly, and companies like AMD are still catching up to demand. With the workforce shift to home, the confinement of quarantine also led to a need for entertainment, which products like PlayStation, Xbox, and graphics cards for PCs exacerbated the demand even further. \u201cThe pandemic has just taken demand to a new level,\u201d said Su in the CNBC story.<\/p>\n<p>While the next six to eight months or so are looking thin for the availability of these parts, investments made by AMD in new manufacturing facilities will start to see fruition soon. \u201cIt might take, you know, 18 to 24 months to put on a new plant, and in some cases even longer than that,\u201d Su says about the timeline of getting these fresh plants up and running. \u201cThese investments were started perhaps a year ago.\u201d AMD\u2019s investment is in setting up other manufacturers to make its products. It outsources because the company doesn\u2019t own the facilities for the production itself.<\/p>\n<p>Those looking for a new PlayStation 5 or Xbox Series console will still most likely have a chance to find one this year, but availability will be noticeably lacking. If you\u2019re willing to wait, the second half of 2022 is looking to be when we see a significant jump in available tech across the board.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gameinformer.com\/2021\/10\/04\/chip-shortage-affecting-console-supplies-will-last-into-2022\">Source<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We\u2019re almost a year out from the releases of both the\u00a0PlayStation 5 and the Xbox Series X\/S, and the prevailing topic for the generation isn\u2019t the games you can play on the new hardware but how hard it is to get your hands on a console. According to an executive at AMD, the chip supplier for Sony and Microsoft\u2019s gaming machines, the drought is not quite at an end. Though, there is light at the end of the tunnel. From a recent CNBC article, AMD CEO Lisa Su described the component supply for even the start of 2022 as \u201clikely tight.\u201d The shortage has been caused by an increase in demand since the beginning of the COVID-19 pandemic. 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