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Empowering insights on commodity and supply chain dynamics

Open-market activity provides a lens into broader market conditions and is often an early indicator of trends and supply chain disruptions. As electronic-component distribution channels have evolved in our increasingly connected world, tier-one OEMS and CMs have looked to open-market distributors as strategic partners to help balance their supply chains.

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Market Bytes

Smith’s biweekly Market Bytes offer a quick at-a-glance into what’s going on in the worldwide electronic-component marketplace.
Market Byte 12.19.2024
A few spot shortages for gDDR6 products are happening in the open market, mainly from computing-infrastructure products, but deliveries from the main suppliers for other graphic RAM and mobile DRAM are reliable.
Market Byte 12.17.2024
Shortages for Nvidia’s Hopper chips (H100, A100, H800, A800, and H200) are still extreme, despite TSMC’s constant capacity expansions for CoWoS packaging—the main bottleneck in the supply of chips.
Market Byte 12.12.2024
Third-quarter shipments of AI-capable personal computers were estimated at 13.3 million units, up 49 percent quarter over quarter. AI-enabled PCs were 20 percent of total PC shipments during the reporting period.
Market Byte 12.10.2024
Canalys reported that third-quarter spending on cloud-infrastructure services increased 21 percent year over year. AWS, Microsoft Azure, and Google Cloud accounted for 64 percent of the USD $82 billion the industry spent during the quarter.
Market Byte 12.5.2024
Prices for high-capacity drives have been increasing for the past year, and, unlike memory products—which have seen a plateau and decline during the fourth quarter—prices for these drives have increased further.
Market Byte 12.3.2024
On December 2, the United States updated its list of DRAM types that are restricted from being exported to Chinese firms to include high-bandwidth memory. The new restrictions will affect HBM2, HBM2E, HBM3, and HBM3E.
Market Byte 11.28.2024
Murata is having a little difficulty fulfilling MLCC orders in some manufacturing segments—especially smartphones, automotive, and HPC—even though production facilities are running at 85-90 percent utilization rates.
Market Byte 11.26.2024
While some reports have raised fears that MLCCs could experience a market-wide shortage, supplies seem to be sufficient for the majority of orders at the moment.
Market Byte 11.21.2024
Lead times for multilayer capacitors have extended slightly due to growing demand by servers running large-language modeling, products integrating artificial intelligence, and the continued trend of automotive electrification.

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