{"id":5448,"date":"2011-03-19T20:44:35","date_gmt":"2011-03-19T20:44:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5448"},"modified":"2011-03-19T20:44:35","modified_gmt":"2011-03-19T20:44:35","slug":"japan-earthquake-sparks-panic-buying","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/?p=5448","title":{"rendered":"Japan Earthquake Sparks Panic Buying"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-5449 lazyload\" title=\"DRAM Memory\" alt=\"DRAM Memory\" width=\"180\" height=\"180\" data-src=\"https:\/\/www.diaryofanadi.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/dram.jpg\" src=\"data:image\/svg+xml;base64,PHN2ZyB3aWR0aD0iMSIgaGVpZ2h0PSIxIiB4bWxucz0iaHR0cDovL3d3dy53My5vcmcvMjAwMC9zdmciPjwvc3ZnPg==\" style=\"--smush-placeholder-width: 180px; --smush-placeholder-aspect-ratio: 180\/180;\" \/>People had better buy up their gadgets before the price goes up. If <a target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/www.informationweek.com\/news\/hardware\/desktop\/showArticle.jhtml?articleID=229301306&amp;cid=RSSfeed_IWK_News\" rel=\"noopener\"><span style=\"color: #800000\">this story in Information Week<\/a> is anything to go by, there is going to be a scarcity of electronic components in the wake of the Japanese earthquake.<\/p>\n<p>Increased ordering has already been observed. Prices have already risen by 10-30% in the last 24 hours.<\/p>\n<p>Japanese semiconductor factories have had to suspend production as a result of the strong aftershocks &#8211; they shut down when a tremor measures 5 on the Richter Scale, but shocks as high as 7 are being experienced.<\/p>\n<p>Japan is a major manufacturer of memory chips for smartphones and PCs.<\/p>\n<p>Apparently, Apple is very vulnerable to these shortages because many of its components are unique and cannot be sourced anywhere else.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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 [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[90,101],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5448","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-computer-tech-related","category-world-related"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5448","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=5448"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5448\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=5448"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=5448"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/diaryofanadi.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=5448"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}