As you may or may not have heard, we're in the middle of a pandemic. This is disrupting all parts of the supply chain, from the smallest of surface-mount components, all the way to shipping the final products.
That's on top of this being a time when AMD has released new CPU's, new GPU's, and the chips at the heart of both new consoles.
Whether it's the wafer supply issue at TSMC or the general supply chain issues that are mostly to blame, feel free to guess.
In about three weeks, things will get worse, as workers in China get a couple weeks off for their new year holiday. If I had to guess, I'd say a semblance of normalcy in CPU market availability will return no earlier than March.
