The cost of your smartphone might rise, analysts are warning, as the AI boom clogs up supply chains and a recent change by Nvidia to its products could make it worse.

AI data centers, on which tech giants globally are spending hundreds of billions of dollars , require chips from suppliers, like Nvidia, which relies on many different components and companies to create its coveted graphics processing units.

But other companies like AMD , the hyperscalers like Google and Microsoft , and other component suppliers all rely on this supply chain.

Many parts of the supply chain can't keep up with demand, and it's slowing down components that are critical for some of the world's most popular consumer electronics. Those components are seeing huge spikes

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