Meghan McCarty Carino

We're back with Tom Minnelli, Vice President of Device and Consumer Research at IDC.

What does this mean for consumers in the near term?

Yeah, the consumers that I really saw complaining about this shortage already are people that build gaming PCs, you know, custom gaming PCs.

Is that a market that's been particularly hard hit?

You are an expert in this domain, but like everyone else, you're also a consumer.

Has this shortage affected any of your personal consumer choices recently?

That was Tom Minnelli at IDC.

Daniel Shin produced this episode.

I'm Megan McCurdy Carino, and that's Marketplace Tech.

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How do you build fire resiliency into new homes?

From American Public Media, this is Marketplace Tech.

I'm Megan McCarty Carino.

Just over a year ago, the most costly wildfires in history hit L.A., destroying more than 10,000 homes in Pacific Palisades and Altadena, including the home of Marketplace's David Brancaccio.

He's now in the arduous process of rebuilding, using a fire-resistant material called CLT, cross-laminated timber.

We'll be right back.

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I'm Megan McCarty Carino.

We're back with Marketplace's David Brancaccio.

Tell me about some of the alternative materials that your neighbors are using, kind of high-tech stuff to resist fires.