Apple (AAPL) and Qualcomm (QCOM) are concerned about the strained supplies of Japan's high-end glass cloth fiber, Nikkei Asia reported. Glass cloth is a vital part in chip substrates and printed ...

TAIPEI/TOKYO -- It looks something like heavy-duty plastic wrap and is buried so deep in the guts of an iPhone that most users don't even know it exists. But short supplies of high-end glass cloth ...

Demand for AI chips is expected to remain strong in 2026, keeping the spotlight firmly on persistent shortages of high-end glass fiber cloth—an essential material in advanced circuit boards and chip..

The global AI boom is pushing electronics supply chains to their limits. While shortages of advanced chips and memory have drawn most attention, a less visible constraint is emerging: high-end ...

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In the high-stakes world of semiconductor manufacturing, the spotlight usually falls on nanometer process nodes, lithography machines, or the sheer computing power of the latest GPUs. Yet, a looming ...

Here’s yet another manufacturing pressure we have the AI chip boom to thank for: glass cloth. It’s a key component in the chip substrates for printed circuit boards, and the industry is mostly reliant ...