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Cake day: January 17th, 2026

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  • Manufacturers have a certain amount of chips they can manufacture, let’s say they can manufacture 10 million chips per year. Normally they adjust for demand, like manufacture 7 million chips for consumers and 3 million for enterprise customers. Company A contacts them and says “We need 6 million chips for this year, here’s the money”, But the factories still can manufacture only 10 million chips in total, so they adjust their factories to manufacture more enterprise focused chips, decreasing the amount of chips manufactured used by consumers.