According to Taiwan tech publication DigiTimes, most AI firms are unwilling to wait two years for HDD supplies to stabilize and are shifting to SSDs instead. To contain costs, they are choosing QLC NAND-based drives over the faster, more durable, and more expensive TLC variants.
Back to punch cards we go. Or are they hoarding paper too?
“This just in. Panic buying of paper has led to shortages in timber, resulting in another round of toilet paper scarcity.”
Tariffs already gutted the barley starting to recover from the pandemic wood shortage.