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Literally no-one – the majority of high-tech consumer electronics would stop being produced as soon as existing chips run out.


That’s not true - with the exception of the leading edge nodes, there are other fabs.

The question is how easily could they migrate and prioritise the workload?


There's very few of these other fabs outside China. They exist, but aren't able to deliver enough at a global scale. That's what we learned the hard way during the chip shortage a few years ago, where car production for jbstance basically came to a crawl.




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