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Salty_Aus
What's stopping these manufacturers from making more?
Look at the GTX 1070 for example, it's been around for like 18 months. I'm sure they've not just made one batch. You can buy them just about everywhere right now, at about double the release price in late 2016.
About 6 weeks ago they were really rare, now most computer shops have stock here.
Usually if you look far enough up the supply line, you find a shortage of rare elements such as lithium and cobalt iirc.
It's exactly why we are jockeying for influence in places like Afghanistan and Africa, where a) this shit gets mined and b) China beat us to the punch.
On top of which, there is an organic break point where its not financially feasible to tool up production because it costs X dollars to do so which costs more than you can recoup by the time you have to retool for next generation chips.