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Mumbai (Maharashtra) [India], January 17: There’s a quiet irony unfolding inside the global tech supply chain. Just as consumers are told that artificial intelligence will make life smoother, faster, and cheaper, the physical components powering that intelligence are doing the opposite — tightening supply, inflating prices, and forcing uncomfortable trade-offs. Memory chips, once the most predictable line item in consumer electronics, are suddenly the bottleneck nobody wants to headline. As 2026 approaches, analysts are no longer whispering about shortages; they’re issuing polite warnings dressed up as forecasts. The reality is less polite. High-bandwidth memory (HBM) is being vacuumed into data…
