Jeff Janukowicz, global lead and research vice president at IDC, explains what crucial material supply chains are being disrupted due to the Iran war and what effects it’s having on the consumer market and the AI sector.

The war with Iran has upended supply chains including for materials that are critical to building the electronics we use everyday, such as a certain kind of thermoplastic, copper, and helium. Now we’re dealing with shortages of all of them.
Marketplace’s Stephanie Hughes spoke with Jeff Janukowicz, an analyst with the research firm IDC, to learn more.
Iran war disrupts the circuit board supply chain, raises costs for tech firms - from Reuters