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Hurricane Helene devastates quartz mines critical for worldwide semiconductor manufacturing (www.tomshardware.com)
submitted 4 weeks ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]
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[–] [email protected] 9 points 4 weeks ago

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.