The hurricane exposed the vulnerable underbelly of the global chip industry.
  • stoy
    151·
    3 months ago

    It’s a quartz mine, your current phone won’t just die.

    Calm down.

    • jeffw@lemmy.worldOPM
      51·
      3 months ago

      By some estimates, Spruce Pine accounted for 70 percent of the high-purity quartz needed to produce the pure silicon used to make most advanced chips

      I don’t think anyone was thinking a mine’s slowdown would kill their current phone lol

      • stoy
        8·
        3 months ago

        Fair, I just woke up and was very annoyed at the clickbait title.

        I guess I was wrong