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Covid-19 Asia surge threatens to manufacture ceramic bits on iPhone and PlayStation Hidden in modern smartphones are over 1000 small ceramics to control the flow of electricity. There are more than 10,000 electric vehicles. “The supply of MLCCs remains very tight,” said Forrest Chen, an analyst at TrendForce, a Taiwan-based research firm. They are called MLCCs in the sense of multi-layer ceramic capacitors, and the proliferation of Covid-19 infections throughout East Asia increases the risk that factories will not be able to adequately handle them. Murata Manufacturing Co., Ltd. in Kyoto, Japan, the largest manufacturer of MLCCs, closed its main...
