Have you hoarded gold and silver? It's skyrocketing.
On January 21, the international silver price surged to $95.87 per ounce, an increase of over 200% compared to early last year. This round of silver market fluctuations is faster than a rocket, but you may have forgotten that silver's position in the modern industrial system has been seriously underestimated for too long.
In traditional perception, silver is a precious metal, a safe-haven asset, and a shadow of gold. But in the reality of the industrial chain, it resembles an invisible screw:
The unit price is not high, the quantity used is also not large, but it is used at all key nodes—photovoltaic conductive layers, chip packaging, precision electronics, industrial contacts. Any disruption in one link can lead to unimaginable consequences.
The key issue is: silver gives us the feeling of always being cheap and always being available.
Now, photovoltaic costs are being rapidly driven up, profits from chip packaging are being compressed, and the manufacturing side is being forced to redesign material structures. This has led to increasingly expensive electronic devices.
The United States has classified silver as a critical mineral, which essentially acknowledges: this metal is no longer just a market issue, but an industrial safety issue.
China's quantitative management of export enterprises is not to raise prices, but to prevent the domestic manufacturing system from being squeezed by external demand.
With the surge in silver prices, we realize that many things are irreplaceable.
Silver is not scarce; it has simply been used to its limits.
Silver is not the main character, yet it is crucial.
