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Hurricane Helene devastates quartz mines critical for worldwide semiconductor manufacturing (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 2 months ago by misk@sopuli.xyz to c/technology@lemmy.world
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[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 13 points 2 months ago (1 children)

While all the wafer dies made come from this mine, it can be synthesized. This won't end high end production, even if it were destroyed completely.

[–] sunzu2@thebrainbin.org 10 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Yeah but that would deff hurt the mine owner tho, have you thought about that?

[–] ColeSloth@discuss.tchncs.de 3 points 2 months ago

That's what's extra stupid. Damned thing isn't even US owned. It's a private company from Belgium.