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Re:Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented s... by Gathering6678 on Thursday May 07, 2026 @01:24PM (#48052113)
China is also short on supply... Capex for these are planned years ahead and just not flexible enough to deal with the supply squeeze right now.
Re:Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented s... by ahartmetz on Thursday May 07, 2026 @03:07PM (#48053460)
China is famously fast at building things, but maybe not semiconductor factories... especially with long lead times from Western suppliers.
Re:Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented s... by laughing_man on Friday May 08, 2026 @01:51AM (#48059088)
I'm not sure that's going to change unless the LLM stuff slumps. Chip makers get burned every few decades by building boom-time capacity that comes online just after the crash. They're going to be reluctant to make big capex spends unless they think the demand is durable.