{"id":156610,"date":"2026-08-26T13:30:06","date_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:30:06","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156610"},"modified":"2026-08-26T13:30:06","modified_gmt":"2026-08-26T13:30:06","slug":"ai-server-boom-fuels-record-supply-crunch-for-the-rice-of-electronics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/?p=156610","title":{"rendered":"AI server boom fuels record supply crunch for the \u2018rice of electronics\u2019"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Source: Tech &#8211; South China Morning PostGlobal inventories of multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) \u2013 tiny components dubbed \u201cthe rice of the electronics industry\u201d \u2013 have dropped to a record low as the industry grapples with surging demand from artificial intelligence infrastructure.<br \/>\nWorldwide distributor inventory volume for the components \u2013 which act as electrical buffers in circuit boards and are increasingly used in massive volumes in high-performance servers \u2013 declined 8 per cent by August 9 compared with four weeks earlier,&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/tech-trends\/article\/3365353\/ai-server-boom-fuels-record-supply-crunch-rice-electronics?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 PostGlobal inventories of multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) \u2013 tiny components dubbed \u201cthe rice of the electronics industry\u201d \u2013 have dropped to a record low&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\/156610"}],"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=156610"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/156610\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=156610"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=156610"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/cryptospotters.net\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=156610"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}