{"id":152958,"date":"2026-06-15T02:00:12","date_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:00:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152958"},"modified":"2026-06-15T02:00:12","modified_gmt":"2026-06-15T02:00:12","slug":"the-rice-of-electronics-how-ai-driven-demand-for-mlccs-triggered-a-supply-bottleneck","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=152958","title":{"rendered":"The \u2018rice of electronics\u2019: how AI-driven demand for MLCCs triggered a supply bottleneck"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostOften dubbed \u201cthe rice of the electronics industry\u201d, multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) are the smallest yet indispensable components powering modern innovations from smartphones to electric vehicles (EVs).<br \/>\nThese tiny capacitors are currently under the spotlight because the insatiable computing needs of artificial intelligence (AI) have caused an explosion in demand, a surge described as \u201cscary\u201d by Katsuya Sase, CEO of Japanese MLCC maker Taiyo Yuden.<br \/>\nHere is what you need to know about what&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/big-tech\/article\/3357090\/rice-electronics-how-ai-driven-demand-mlccs-triggered-supply-bottleneck?utm_source=rss_feed\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"feedzy-rss-link-icon\" rel=\"noopener\">Read More<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostOften dubbed \u201cthe rice of the electronics industry\u201d, multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) are the smallest yet indispensable components powering modern innovations from smartphones to&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[4],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152958"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=152958"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/152958\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=152958"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=152958"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=152958"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}