https://www.nytimes.com/2019/10/14/health/cancer-drug-shortage.html … We're running out of vincristine? WTF.
One counterexample is surface mount capacitors: IIRC, there were three big companies making them, one decided to leave the market because the margins were too low, the other two are having trouble keeping with with demand.
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Are these technically challenging to make? Do they rely on a rare natural resource that only these companies have access to? (Sorry if these are basic questions, I don't know much about electronics)
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Manufacture in consistent quality appears to be technically complex and has big economies of scale. It doesn't look like the raw maternal for standard MLCCs are particularity rare. (People propose using Tantalum based capacitors as an alternative. https://passive-components.eu/the-basics-benefits-of-tantalum-ceramic-capacitors/ …)
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Of course now prices are increasing, and other companies are therefore increasing production of capacitors. https://hackaday.com/2018/01/31/global-resistor-shortage-economics-and-consumer-behavior/ … https://www.sourcetoday.com/supply-chain/capacitor-shortages-continue-least-another-year-executives-say … https://www.worthingtonassembly.com/blog/2018/5/24/explaining-the-current-capacitor-shortage … https://hackaday.com/2018/09/18/ask-hackaday-hows-that-capacitor-shortage-going/ … (I'm not disagreeing with any of what you are saying.)
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