I have no idea who blew up ns2 nor have any interest in speculations. It would be important to know, but without any convincing evidence this just distracts people from more important stuff. At some point we’ll know. Whatever has happend, AFAIC it was the right outcome for the wrong reasons.
I don’t mean existing manufacturers necessarily. Unfortunately there are no certainties, but I’d say give it some time. These chips are (or at the very least becoming) strategic commodities, so the greater the squeeze the more appealing the business case will be. Besides, both the US and EU want to grow their chip manufacturing capacity and it’s not like there is no investment money available. So at some point production capacity will grow.
Apparently there is a huge demand for storage, both RAM and disk. Oh, and GPUs… So what happens when large number of people are looking to buy stuff? In time, I think there is a silver lining here…
Imagine that 🤣
If anyone wonders why there are so many scams, it’s easy! The average consumer is in general are short sighted, gullible and naive. Of course there will be plenty who will to exploit that.
Not true. Cutting reliance on gas - of whatever origin - is of the utmost importance. I mean anything energy related. Natural gas has other uses besides burning it to generate power, not talking about that. Renewables + energy storage tech are good enough substitutes that should prevent any new investments in last century’s tech.