Cornell Chronicle

Olson says:

"Because most of the semiconductor plants have a limit of WPH (wafers per hour) there are only so many chips that can be manufactured per day, because of limited Equipment throughput (ETH)." 
 

Ober says:

"In part, the shortage stems from cutbacks made to production from the start of the pandemic and now that production is increasing, knowing how many items to produce and how many to order is complicated. This can lead to shortages of items that were readily available before the pandemic. Chips like sophisticated microprocessors are not as affected but that does not help build a car if you don't have the simpler chips."

Hockett says: 

“Several important questions will be raised at this Thursday’s GameStop hearings, but the most important question, alas, is unlikely to come up.

“The questions that will come up include, among others, (a) whether short-selling should be more tightly regulated, (b) whether large, wholesale hedge funds are hiding behind self-styled ‘retail’ investors, and (c) whether putatively neutral platforms like Robinhood actually have non-impartial ‘skin in the game,’ and must accordingly be carefully regulated under Title VIII of Dodd-Frank—the still oddly ignored ‘market utilities’ portion of that Act.

“As important as these questions are, another one dwarfs them in significance: namely, why trillions of dollars flow, not to high-wage productive industry and critical domestic infrastructures, but instead to mere high-stakes poker games. Yet I doubt that this question will be raised. Until it is, we as a nation will continue to channel far too little money to constructive production and far too much money to destructive speculation.”