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The dead end of chips: Manufacturing semiconductors consumes as much energy as entire countries
(english.elpais.com)
This is a most excellent place for technology news and articles.
And that's mostly the "bullshit IoT" category. It's not like the demand for phones and laptops exploded in the last years, it's IoT, AI and other useless crap - regardless of the process node.
Even a non-IoT electronic device still runs on many different chips.
Exactly, such as:
Basically, if it does something useful, there's probably a ton of chips involved.