(Image credit: Future, Matt Safford) Motherboard sales are now collapsing amid unprecedented shortages fueled by AI, causing prices for many major PC components to rise across the board during the past six months, with memory modules and storage drives leading the way. Now those shortages are being exacerbated by chipmakers, like Nvidia, Intel, and AMD, reducing production of consumer chips so they can manufacture more AI processors. The AI infrastructure buildout is also causing shortages for I...