Chips shortage to raise cost of PCs

[r_manic]

The cost of assembling personal computers will rise this year for the first time in six years because of shortages in some key components, industry analysts have forecast.

The cost of semiconductor components in computers has fallen by an average of 7.8 per cent a year since 2000, but is set to rise 2.8 per cent this year, according to data from Gartner, the research consultancy.

This is almost entirely attributable to a 23 per cent increase in the price of D-Ram memory chips . Those chips, which are needed in every computer, make up about 10 per cent of a PC's overall cost.

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[hundredislandsboy]

Ummm.... should we then start stocking up before the prices go higher?

Consumers aren't exactly spending like crazy these days. How ould the manufacturers raise prices if they are selling fewer? I thought demand and supply set the prices and not greedy CEOs. Lol.

 

[roonj]

Not to sound negative but buy is the complete opposite of what has to happen. If it's priced high and they buy, you keep the price high. If the price is high and nobody buys they have to make the price more attractive to sell or start selling calenders. It's the supply demand market curve, or price fixing, isn't that why they have the Taft/Hardy act (point of law).

 

[r_manic]

But doesn't supply also affect the prices? As in "oh no! we're going to run out of stock soon! we'd better raise prices to make sure we don't run out!"

 

[hundredislandsboy]

They might also be intentionally creating an artificial shortage by reducing production just for the purpose of inflating prices.

As a consumer, your dollar or Euro is always under attack so support those who you believe give you good value and boycott those who gouge consumers.

 

[jsc]

Like Apple?

 

[hundredislandsboy]

Exactly like Apple.