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The world’s semiconductor industry hinges on a single quartz factory in North Carolina

By Mar 23, 2024

A mine in North Carolina is ‘the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers’, and if it closed, the ‘catastrophic’ disruption to the semiconductor business would be felt for years. 

A mine in North Carolina is ‘the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers’, and if it closed, the ‘catastrophic’ disruption to the semiconductor business would be felt for years. 

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