CategoryManufacturing

Russia’s Ukraine invasion could trigger a second microchip crisis

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To make microchips, manufacturers use lasers run by neon, and Ukraine is the source for 70 percent of the world’s output of neon. (REUTERS)
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JI
By:
John Irwin
March 05, 2022 05:00 AM

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