From delayed car deliveries to a supply shortfall in home appliances to costlier smartphones, businesses and consumers across the globe are facing the brunt of an unprecedented shortage in semiconductor microchips. Unless you were in the tech industry, no one even knew what a semiconductor was two years ago. And now it's on the cover of the Bloomberg and The Wall Street Journal. A series of manmade and natural disasters have led to global chip storage, caused by supply chain profiteering. In this episode, Gurmeet and Pranit discuss out what caused this shortage crisis to take place, and what we as consumers would be battling out.