No, they are in short supply because there's too many chips to produce and not enough fabs or materials. Almost everyone is having their chips made by TSMC and that's really putting a squeeze on production. The new consoles coming out seems to have fucked up the supply of everything else produced by TSMC more than anything. Thanks to Apple, no one else can even produce anything on TSMC 5nm right now and the consoles are taking up most of the 7nm production.
Nvidia's chips are produced by Samsung but they don't have anywhere near the production capabilities of TSMC and then you've still got the material shortages going on.
I was not aware AMD's cards were made by TSMC; I would have thought they would go with GlobalFoundries. Looks like they've been relying entirely on TSMC for RDNA1 and later.
Funny how "our" politicians don't seem to be the least bit concerned about all our chips being made by one company.
Global foundries is way behind everyone else in fab tech. I think they're at 14nm and TSMC is about to launch their 3nm production. AMD still uses them for the memory controller on their CPUs but that's it and hopefully Zen 4 will change that because their memory controllers kind of suck. My first 5800X had the memory controller die and take out the whole CPU after a month. On my second 5800X now.
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