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AI infrastructure spending is absorbing critical memory, capacitor, and networking components. With capacity constrained and suppliers prioritizing higher-margin contracts, automotive, industrial, and consumer electronics manufacturers face allocation shortages, rising costs, and production risk.
A 30-day Taiwan Strait closure is not a theoretical exercise — it is a supply chain stress test. The AI chips are the most resilient in the short run. The boring chips break first. The actual gating constraint may be energy, not fabrication.