{"id":212561,"date":"2025-12-03T04:32:08","date_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:32:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/212561\/"},"modified":"2025-12-03T04:32:08","modified_gmt":"2025-12-03T04:32:08","slug":"the-ai-frenzy-is-driving-a-new-global-supply-chain-crisis-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/212561\/","title":{"rendered":"The AI frenzy is driving a new global supply chain crisis"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>An acute global shortage of memory chips is forcing artificial intelligence and consumer-electronics companies to fight for dwindling supplies as prices soar for the unglamorous but essential components that allow devices to store data.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese electronics stores have begun limiting how many hard-disk drives shoppers can buy. Chinese smartphone makers are warning of price increases. Tech giants including Microsoft, Google and ByteDance are scrambling to secure supplies from memory-chip makers such as Micron, Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix, according to three people familiar with the discussions.<\/p>\n<p>The squeeze spans almost every type of memory, from flash chips used in USB drives and smartphones to advanced high-bandwidth memory (HBM) that feeds AI chips in data centers. Prices in some segments have more than doubled since February, according to market-research firm TrendForce, drawing in traders betting that the rally has further to run.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"An acute global shortage of memory chips is forcing artificial intelligence and consumer-electronics companies to fight for dwindling&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":212562,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[74],"tags":[291,115991,115990,18,823,19,17,305,1470,19506,41447,80704,753,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-212561","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-technology","8":"tag-ai","9":"tag-bytedance-micron","10":"tag-chipmakers","11":"tag-eire","12":"tag-google","13":"tag-ie","14":"tag-ireland","15":"tag-microsoft","16":"tag-samsung","17":"tag-semiconductors","18":"tag-shipping","19":"tag-sk-hynix","20":"tag-tech","21":"tag-technology"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/115653767813047393","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212561","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=212561"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/212561\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/212562"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=212561"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=212561"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=212561"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}