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Unmet demand for advanced microchips, thanks to AI data center buildouts, is shifting the manufacturing dynamic.

Chipmakers are focusing on profitable AI components, leading to a shortage in lower tier chips and memory storage.

The shortage is already showing up in higher prices for products like smartphones, PCs and televisions.

Overwhelming demand for advanced microchips and other high-tech components needed to build out artificial intelligence data centers is spurring manufacturing changes and set to drive up prices on a whole host of more mundane consumer electronics.

And industry experts say these new market imbalances are likely to persist for the foreseeable future.

The debut of the AI-powered chatbot ChatGPT in 2022 marked the beginning of a demand explosion for ma

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