Thinking of buying a new PC? You might want to move soon, as a perfect storm looks to be brewing for component price hikes

Angry PC gamer sitting at a gaming desktop PC and losing.

• China is introducing new export controls on rare-earth elements
• Those elements are used in making a whole lot of PC components
• This could exert further pricing pressures on the makers of those components, on top of already-existing market forces pushing up the cost of drives and RAM

If you didn't want to hear more negativity about further pressures on the prices of PCs and related components like SSDs, then brace yourself – there's a new danger on the horizon.