{"id":222251,"date":"2026-05-29T03:22:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T07:22:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/taiyo-yuden-sees-scary-levels-of-ai-parts-demand-risking-supply-chain\/"},"modified":"2026-05-29T04:30:10","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T08:30:10","slug":"taiyo-yuden-sees-scary-levels-of-ai-parts-demand-risking-supply-chain","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/2026\/05\/29\/taiyo-yuden-sees-scary-levels-of-ai-parts-demand-risking-supply-chain\/","title":{"rendered":"Taiyo Yuden sees \u2018scary\u2019 levels of AI parts demand risking supply chain"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/business\/2026\/05\/29\/companies\/taiyo-yuden-ai-demand\/\">Taiyo Yuden sees \u2018scary\u2019 levels of AI parts demand risking supply chain<\/a><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/business\/2026\/05\/29\/companies\/taiyo-yuden-ai-demand\/\">https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/business\/2026\/05\/29\/companies\/taiyo-yuden-ai-demand\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Publish Date: <a href=\"publish_date]\">2026-05-29 03:22:00<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Source Domain: <a href=\"www.japantimes.co.jp\">www.japantimes.co.jp<\/a><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>Taiyo Yuden is facing intense demand for its high-end multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) in artificial intelligence server components.<\/li>\n<li>This surge in demand is straining Taiyo Yuden\u2019s production capacity and heightening the risk of supply chain disruptions.<\/li>\n<li>The company\u2019s CEO, Katsuya Sase, anticipates needing to accelerate spending on expanding output capabilities.<\/li>\n<li>MLCCs play a critical role in stabilizing and regulating power in electronic devices, particularly in AI data centers.<\/li>\n<li>Taiyo Yuden, along with Murata Manufacturing, dominates the global supply of high-end MLCCs.<\/li>\n<li>The current demand levels are described as \u201cscary\u201d by Sase, indicating a potential bottleneck as reliance on a few suppliers increases vulnerability to individual disruptions.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Taiyo Yuden sees \u2018scary\u2019 levels of AI parts demand risking supply chain https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/business\/2026\/05\/29\/companies\/taiyo-yuden-ai-demand\/ Publish Date:&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":222252,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/www.japantimes.co.jp\/japantimes\/uploads\/images\/2026\/05\/29\/543200.jpg?v=3.1","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[14],"tags":[20],"class_list":["post-222251","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\/222251"}],"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=222251"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222251\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":222253,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/222251\/revisions\/222253"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/222252"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=222251"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=222251"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/testing.news-you-need.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=222251"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}