I've been in tech for ~40 years now and I've never seen anything like this. The downstream repercussions on consumer products that have no access to cheap memory is devastating and is an extinction level event for most low-cost providers of cell phones, tvs, etc.
>I've been in tech for ~40 years now and I've never seen anything like this.
Then how do you not remember the DRAM shortage of the late 1980s?