Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock
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- randerson - 3823 sekunder sedanI've developed a new fear of my 2025 desktop PC being damaged by a power surge or something, because it would cost at least $2K more to replace than I paid for it, assuming I can even find parts now. Compared to the rest of my adult life when I used to secretly pray for something to fail so I would have a reason to upgrade.
- abeppu - 15540 sekunder sedanI remember hearing somewhere on this site that medical imaging got pretty good at building systems that recycle helium. Does chip manufacturing not do this or are the losses at their scale are still large enough that you need a substantial constant supply?
- hbrav - 898 sekunder sedanTech divers are also probably gonna be having a Bad Time. Helium mixes are already pretty expensive, I assume this will make it far worse.
- arunc - 22122 sekunder sedanSo the RAM prices are going to skyrocket again?
- trollbridge - 25691 sekunder sedanAren’t there huge stockpiles of helium in the US? I can buy party sized tanks at Target or big tanks at the usual places like welding supply places.
- lpcvoid - 25193 sekunder sedanGreat timing that the US recently sold its strategic helium supply.
- CrzyLngPwd - 2557 sekunder sedanThis is, according to Hegseth, just something they planned for, since they knew what was going to happen.
- etchalon - 5000 sekunder sedanIt's almost like war is a bad thing.
- emsign - 22497 sekunder sedanIran will make AI go pop.
- nDRDY - 15987 sekunder sedanSomewhat tangential question - for the "Just Stop Oil" folks - is it the extraction of oil that is the problem, or the burning of it? If the former, then we have an opportunity to investigate more renewable sources.
- spiderfarmer - 23007 sekunder sedanLindsay Graham has an easy solution to this unnecessary conflict: send your sons and daughters.
This whole administration is such a fiasco.
- coreyh14444 - 24989 sekunder sedanRemember all the e/acc people telling us to vote for Trump? Some mea-culpas are in order.
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- ReptileMan - 27509 sekunder sedanDo you remember this quote from wheel of time?
"Let the lord of chaos rule" ...
- breppp - 24639 sekunder sedanQatar is probably intentionally shutting down production of gas and oil in order to pressure the US to stop, independently of Iranian attacks.
In that respect they may be bombed by Iran but they have the same interests
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