People had better buy up their gadgets before the price goes up. If this story in Information Week is anything to go by, there is going to be a scarcity of electronic components in the wake of the Japanese earthquake.
Increased ordering has already been observed. Prices have already risen by 10-30% in the last 24 hours.
Japanese semiconductor factories have had to suspend production as a result of the strong aftershocks – they shut down when a tremor measures 5 on the Richter Scale, but shocks as high as 7 are being experienced.
Japan is a major manufacturer of memory chips for smartphones and PCs.
Apparently, Apple is very vulnerable to these shortages because many of its components are unique and cannot be sourced anywhere else.
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