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Chip shortages happen every now and again. I remember at least two due to shortages of a particular kind of epoxy resin:

2011 https://www.eetimes.com/document.asp?doc_id=1258963 " "This is an unfortunate coincidence where 90-100 percent of the world's supply of bismaleimide triazine is made in northeastern Japan,"

1993 https://apnews.com/8fe2925b68d34d33f19a53e4892c74a2 "epoxy resin has been the talk of the computer chip business for the past month after an explosion destroyed a Japanese factory that made 60 percent of the world’s supply."

> if we can at least fallback to 80-s chips production in case of a supply chain collapse.

Not literally, most of the 80s US chip manufacturing sites are Superfund sites now.



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