{"id":236760,"date":"2026-05-08T06:07:07","date_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/ai-data-center-boom-is-leaving-consumer-electronics-short-of-chips-%e2%88%92-even-though-they-dont-use-the-same-kinds"},"modified":"2026-05-08T06:07:07","modified_gmt":"2026-05-08T11:07:07","slug":"ai-data-center-boom-is-leaving-consumer-electronics-short-of-chips-%e2%88%92-even-though-they-dont-use-the-same-kinds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/05\/ai-data-center-boom-is-leaving-consumer-electronics-short-of-chips-%e2%88%92-even-though-they-dont-use-the-same-kinds","title":{"rendered":"AI data center boom is leaving consumer electronics short of chips \u2212 even though they don\u2019t use the same kinds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<p><iframe style=\"display: block; margin: 0 auto; width: 100%; aspect-ratio: 4\/3; object-fit: contain;\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/IkRXpFIRUl4?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; encrypted-media; gyroscope;\n   picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Data centers need powerful chips, while smartphones need chips that are energy efficient. A supply chain scholar explains why chipmakers\u2019 focus on the former comes at the expense of the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Data centers need powerful chips, while smartphones need chips that are energy efficient. A supply chain scholar explains why chipmakers\u2019 focus on the former comes at the expense of the latter.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1512,6],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-236760","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-phones","category-robotics-ai"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236760","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=236760"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/236760\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=236760"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=236760"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=236760"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}