Tantalum Capacitor Price Increase

Yageo's subsidiary, Kemet, has announced a further increase in the prices of tantalum capacitors. This marks the third time the company has adjusted prices due to sustained demand for servers used in artificial intelligence applications.

The demand for AI servers is experiencing strong growth, driven by the computing requirements for training and inference of large language models (LLMs) and other generative AI applications. This growth is reflected in the supply chain, impacting the costs of key components such as tantalum capacitors.

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