There is a very simple explanation. China is a >60% of the world chip market, and probably is even more now since China was the first country to reopen: https:/

There is a very simple explanation. China is a >60% of the world chip market, and probably is even more now since China was the first country to reopen: https://daxueconsulting.com/chinas-semiconductor-industry/ https://daxueconsulting.com/chinas-semiconductor-industry/ Giant stocks of everything started to vaporise overnight, all at the around same time last November. I have a few STM32 reels of different models some of which I can now sell at $10 per MCU. A 100-fold increase in price, that beats any bitcoin. The starvation of seventies, and hungry eighties have taught Chinese a thing, or two about shortages. People in the ex-USSR countries had the same tendency to run hoarding stuff on every economic doom announcement.