News Silicon Price Spike Is Latest Terrible News for Tech Prices

[Admin]

A lack of coal in China has led to a cut in production of the highly refined silicon used in transistors.

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The good news just keep coming.

The joys of supply mono-culture where nearly everything passes through a single country going through a mid-life crisis.

 

[gargoylenest]

well, its time I start my own silicon refinery in my garage!

 

[jasonf2]

If I remember right from high school chemistry silicon is a metalloid and on the periodic chart falls to a non metal group, not a metal.

 

[jasonf2]

The good news just keep coming.

The joys of supply mono-culture where nearly everything passes through a single country going through a mid-life crisis.

Or better yet a society that has become so fixated on the lowest price that they failed to recognize that outsourcing your entire supply chain on a just in time model leaves you completely helpless when the single vendor who ran everyone out of business via government subsidies and currency exchange manipulation tells you that they can't deliver the product you ordered. Better yet when that vendor is in a country that is willing to profit from capitalism and democracy, but is actually exactly the opposite in stated ideology.

 

[ConfusedCounsel]

So as the world grapples with a supply chain shortage, forcing production to lines to close, Congress keeps fighting over how much 3.5 trillion it can spend on some undisclosed plans and to be paid for with some undisclosed framework. How exactly is that helping people?

 

[ConfusedCounsel]

Or better yet a society that has become so fixated on the lowest price that they failed to recognize that outsourcing your entire supply chain on a just in time model leaves you completely helpless when the single vendor who ran everyone out of business via government subsidies and currency exchange manipulation tells you that they can't deliver the product you ordered. Better yet when that vendor is in a country that is willing to profit from capitalism and democracy, but is actually exactly the opposite in stated ideology.

But this gave us the green economy we wanted. Consumption without production is so environmentally friendly. Just don't look across the Pacific.

In hindsight, maybe it would have been more economically sustainable to develop technology allowing for eco-friendly production, rather than exporting our pollution producing production over seas.