The electronics supply chain covers a vast number of companies and industries. At the top of the chain are electronics company that supply companies with industrial, consumer, defense, medical and automation (artificial intelligent) equipment. At the bottom of the supply chain are companies that supply chemicals, software, materials and intellectual property components. Although one may disagree with these categories, the supply chain categorizations are based on who supplies who with what. At the bottom of the supply chain are the the basic resource companies that supply the basics. And the basic of all resources is human thought and its encapsulation into software. Similarly at ground zero of the supply chain are the basics for survival: food, water, air, transportation and the equipment and activities required.
More so, in today’s modern age, data is central to modern survival. This means the data center is a ground zero supplier as well as are energy producers, utilities and the energy resource suppliers: the coal, wind, solar, hydroelectric, geothermal and oil resource companies to name just a few. All of who are just a few steps from consumers, the industrial, military, agricultural and transportation complex, governments and others who require basic thought, and organic and inorganic supplies to produce their products.
That is the endless chain of producers and consumers. That is again supply chains that have hundreds of suppliers and hundred of consumers connected in an ever-evolving artificial intelligence decision matrix.
