I read this article from the Post today and felt it was a very good insight as to what we have been seeing with the chip shortages. I was going to post this on the 3er forum but realized this is beyond that. The reason I wanted to provide this is because there have been a ton of people attempting to order new BMWs (not limited to) with certain options or features but are currently unable to do so because of a shortage of the Integrated Circuits (IC). As you will see in the article, this is widespread and impacting multiple industries.
It doesn't seem like this problem is going away anytime soon due to all of the stuff happening over the past couple of years. With COVID it just exacerbated everything. Just thought I'd share this informative piece. Please keep politics out of this. Thank you.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/busin...364_story.html