Snow Boards
Taiwanese tech news site DigiTimes has reported that heavy snowfall in China has brought much of its infrastructure to a halt. As a result some PCB manufacturers are running at 30 per cent capacity and are having to drastically cut their shipments.
A combination of transport problems and power failures has affected the ability to both manufacture good and to ship them out. Many Taiwan-based PCB vendors base their manufacturing in China and it's unclear whether this means that global supplies of products like motherboards and graphics cards will be affected.
The scale of the problem has been exacerbated by the fact that it coincides with people beginning to travel to their families in advance of the Chinese New Year holiday, which begins on 7th February. The central provinces of Hunan and Hubei have been hardest hit.
