# Chip supply is nowhere close to demand — get chips into people's hands

- **Speaker:** Greg Osuri
- **Attribution:** attributed
- **Said:** 2023-12-19
- **Theme:** GPU Economics — https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/
- **Source:** Akash Network founder Greg Osuri - Building a Decentralized Computing Marketplace (Crypto Nuggets)
- **Watch at:** 00:35:24 — https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwpAQjvSxRE&t=2124s
- **Canonical:** https://www.gregosuri.com/predictions/gpu-economics/2023-12-19-chip-supply-is-nowhere-close-to-demand-get-chips-i-2pfy/
- **Cite as:** Greg Osuri, "Chip supply is nowhere close to demand — get chips into people's hands," Akash Network founder Greg Osuri - Building a Decentralized Computing Marketplace (Crypto Nuggets), 19 Dec 2023, 00:35:24. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwpAQjvSxRE&t=2124s

## Quote — verbatim

> We have to do everything we can, if you want to keep AI alive, to get more chips in people's hands. Demand is only increasing... but the chip manufacturing and chip supply chain is nowhere close to catching up with the demand.

## Context — site annotation, not spoken

After explaining ChatGPT's throttling and paused API signups as symptoms of GPU scarcity; also notes H100 demand is memory-driven (on-chip memory scales with parameter count).