AI Data Center Demand Causes Two-Year Delays for Enterprise Hard Drives
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Summary
The AI boom is causing severe supply chain disruptions in the data storage industry, with enterprise-grade hard drives facing two-year delivery delays. Manufacturers are struggling to keep pace with AI data center demand, leading to shortages and price increases across memory and storage components. The article suggests this shortage may accelerate the adoption of QLC (Quad-Level Cell) NAND flash technology over TLC (Triple-Level Cell) in the coming years as the industry seeks solutions to meet growing storage needs for AI infrastructure.
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The race to achieve AGI (artificial general intelligence) has pushed constituents to invest in and build data centers at a pace far outstripping our ability to make them.
Manufacturers are struggling to keep up with AI demand, and the ongoing DRAM shortage is proof of this, with memory kits costing more than double what they did just a few months ago.
The AI boom might help QLC overtake TLC in the next two years.
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