{"id":153239,"date":"2026-06-20T03:00:08","date_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:00:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153239"},"modified":"2026-06-20T03:00:08","modified_gmt":"2026-06-20T03:00:08","slug":"tiny-capacitor-huge-demand-the-ai-frenzy-driving-mlcc-prices-higher","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=153239","title":{"rendered":"Tiny capacitor, huge demand: the AI frenzy driving MLCC prices higher"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostLast year, it was memory chips. This year, the hottest commodity in Shenzhen\u2019s Huaqiangbei electronics market is a component no larger than a postage stamp.<br \/>\nChinese vendors of multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) are riding a massive wave of soaring prices driven by the global artificial intelligence boom.<br \/>\nBecause these minuscule components are vital for regulating electric currents, global manufacturing lines are scrambling to keep up with skyrocketing demand from AI server clusters and&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3357603\/tiny-capacitor-huge-demand-ai-frenzy-driving-mlcc-prices-higher?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 PostLast year, it was memory chips. This year, the hottest commodity in Shenzhen\u2019s Huaqiangbei electronics market is a component no larger than a postage&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\/153239"}],"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=153239"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/153239\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=153239"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=153239"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=153239"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}