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Hardware Unboxed made a quite interesting video about the state of the supply and prices of both GPU and CPU:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nh_GDvNABJA

Bottom line:

1. They don't really know who's the culprit on increasing the prices as everybody blames everybody. In the chat however it seems the blame goes unanimously to distributors who massively overcharge and bundle some crap with the cards (like 10 crappy PSU for $150 each if you want to buy a 3080, for instance).
2. Prices thankfully seem to plateau, with a potential  of going down very slightly over the next weeks.
3. Don't expect 3080,3060Ti or any 6800 to get better supplies anytime soon as NVidia and AMD are delivering the more valuable 3090, 3070 and 6900XT first.
4. On the CPU side, Comet Lake is widely available while the 5800X and 3600X are also mostly available by now.
5. The 5900X and 5950X on the other hand are hard to get as their chips are getting binned for the much more lucrative EPYC server chips. Those won't get good availability before a couple of months, especially not the 5900X.

Next episode will be interesting to see if there's much change - and how the situation will be for the 6700XT and Rocket Lake.