{
  "id": 17297,
  "url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3363190/chinas-mlcc-supply-chain-expanding-rapidly-amid-surge-global-ai-demand",
  "title": "China’s MLCC supply chain expanding rapidly amid surge in global AI demand",
  "summary": "China’s upstream supply chain for multilayer ceramic capacitors (MLCCs) – tiny components dubbed “the rice of electronics” – is racing to expand capacity, as an artificial intelligence-driven boom triggers a surge in global orders. Shandong Sinocera Functional Materials, a major supplier of dielectric powder to MLCC manufacturers, told investors in a Shenzhen Stock Exchange filing on Wednesday that it was actively pushing to expand capacity for AI servers and vehicles, with parts of its new...",
  "authors": "Iris Deng",
  "category": "news",
  "topics": "finance-investment",
  "orgs": null,
  "regions": "china",
  "published_at": "2026-08-06T11:30:08.000Z",
  "fetched_at": "2026-08-07T05:10:58.501Z",
  "source_slug": "x-scmp-tech-hk-cn",
  "source_name": "SCMP Tech (HK/CN)",
  "source_homepage": "https://www.scmp.com/tech",
  "ethics_ai_record_url": "https://ethics.ai/record/17297",
  "original_url": "https://www.scmp.com/tech/tech-trends/article/3363190/chinas-mlcc-supply-chain-expanding-rapidly-amid-surge-global-ai-demand",
  "evidence_status": "source-only",
  "attribution": "via ethics.ai"
}