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A TSMC silicon wafer on display at the 2020 World Semiconductor Conference in Nanjing. It s Little Things – How the Chip Shortage Is Affecting the Data Center Industry Server CPU supply may be fine, but it takes more than a CPU to build a data center. No industry has been pummeled by the global chip shortage like the automotive industry, but few haven’t felt any pain. So, how has the pain manifested in the data center industry, which exists solely to ensure computer processors can go on crunching numbers, uninterrupted? The supply of server CPUs looks steady – mostly because they produce more profit for chip manufacturers than their other products, so they’ve been prioritized. Things look bleaker in other industry subsectors. Network-switch vendors are dealing with extraordinarily long silicon lead times, leaving their executives trying hard to convince stock analysts of their ability to source enough to meet their revenue forecasts for the year. Co ....