One material fits the bill: quartz. Pure quartz. Quartz that comes, overwhelmingly, from Spruce Pine. “As far as we know, there’s only a few places in the world that have ultra-high-quality ...
And with this singular supply of ultra-pure quartz cut off for the foreseeable future, the world’s supply of chips hangs in the balance. To be clear, Spruce Pine is not the only place on the ...
Roula Khalaf, Editor of the FT, selects her favourite stories in this weekly newsletter. Hurricane Helene has exposed a little-known vulnerability in the semiconductor supply chain, after flooding ...