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The problem is that the current production is for stuff that can't really be used as consumer equipment.
If enough of the world's component production capacity is dedicated to AI specific components, then when the bubble pops there won't be anything to sell to consumers for months which could cause the manufacturers to go under.
Yeah, but the odds of them just being allowed to fail like that are basically nil.
They'll retool and start making what's profitable.
That takes time and money, though.
Well I bet they have both of these.
Not if they've bet the farm on income from AI hardware sales.
The agreements being made aren't for existing stock; they're for the total future production capacity. If the manufacturer produces a shit ton of AI hardware and the bubble pops, they're left with unusable inventory and nothing left to put on shelves. It's a fundamental flaw in JIT manufacturing.
This isn't excusing anything. The manufacturers are being extremely short sighted to the point of negligence and it's probably going to backfire on them. But if they go down it'll greatly impact consumer hardware production, likely for years.