{"id":217042,"date":"2026-05-19T23:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-20T03:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/how-tiny-capacitors-became-the-latest-ai-driven-investor-darling\/"},"modified":"2026-05-20T04:45:18","modified_gmt":"2026-05-20T08:45:18","slug":"how-tiny-capacitors-became-the-latest-ai-driven-investor-darling","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/19\/how-tiny-capacitors-became-the-latest-ai-driven-investor-darling\/","title":{"rendered":"How tiny capacitors became the latest AI-driven investor darling"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3354168\/how-tiny-capacitors-became-latest-ai-driven-investor-darling\">How tiny capacitors became the latest AI-driven investor darling<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3354168\/how-tiny-capacitors-became-latest-ai-driven-investor-darling\">https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3354168\/how-tiny-capacitors-became-latest-ai-driven-investor-darling<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-19 23:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.scmp.com\">www.scmp.com<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>The demand for multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) is experiencing a surge due to the artificial intelligence boom and its new production requirements.<\/li>\n<li>MLCCs serve as crucial electrical buffers in circuit boards, and their usage is expanding significantly in high-performance servers driven by AI.<\/li>\n<li>The AI hardware boom has created a bottleneck in production capacity, with MLCC manufacturers focusing on high-end supply for data centres, leading to increased prices.<\/li>\n<li>Next-generation AI hardware like Nvidia\u2019s Rubin architecture requires considerably more MLCC units \u2013 increasing from 6,500 on current platforms to 12,000 on the advanced model.<\/li>\n<li>AI servers consume up to 10 times more power than traditional servers and require up to 28,000 MLCCs per unit, marking a 13-fold increase compared to standard server setups.<\/li>\n<li>The MLCC industry is forecasted to experience explosive growth, potentially mirroring the growth seen in the optical module sector.<\/li>\n<li>The global MLCC market is currently dominated by Japanese and South Korean manufacturers like Murata Manufacturing and Samsung Electro-Mechanics (SEMCO), especially for high-end AI server capacitors.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>How tiny capacitors became the latest AI-driven investor darling https:\/\/www.scmp.com\/tech\/article\/3354168\/how-tiny-capacitors-became-latest-ai-driven-investor-darling Publish Date: 2026-05-19 23:22:00 Source&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":217043,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cdn.i-scmp.com\/sites\/default\/files\/styles\/og_image_scmp_generic\/public\/d8\/images\/canvas\/2026\/05\/20\/51445546-49a0-4a64-b282-dc827db2c0d3_5b3a5d95.jpg?itok=9xLP6Od9&v=1779247319","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-217042","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificial-intelligence"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217042"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=217042"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217042\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":217044,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/217042\/revisions\/217044"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/217043"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=217042"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=217042"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=217042"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}