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☆ How a tiny town hit by Helene could upend the global semiconductor chip industry
  + stars: | 2024-10-03 | by ( Megan Cassella | Megan Cassella Is A Cnbc Correspondent At The Network S Washington | D.C. | ) www.nbcnews.com   time to read: +5 min
Spruce Pine, North Carolina has no running water or electricity, more than a week after Helene ripped through the town of 2,200. Mines in Spruce Pine produce the world’s purest form of quartz, which plays a central role in chip manufacturing. Now, the town’s exceedingly valuable supply of high-purity quartz is at risk, threatening to cripple the $600 billion global semiconductor industry. “The Spruce Pine community has been hit particularly hard,” Sibelco said in a statement on Sept. 30. For the semiconductor industry, the challenges that any long-term disruption to the Spruce Pine mines would present cannot be overstated, experts say.
Persons: Hurricane Helene, Helene, ” Sibelco, “, ”, Lita Shon, Roy, Spencer Bost, “ it’s, Shon, ” Shon, Dustin Mulvaney, ” Mulvaney Organizations: Mines, Quartz Corp, National Weather Service, Downtown, San Jose State University Locations: Hurricane, Spruce Pine , North Carolina, China, Asia, North Carolina, “, Downtown Spruce
☆ Devastation from Hurricane Helene could bring semiconductor chipmaking to a halt
  + stars: | 2024-10-02 | by ( Clare Duffy | Dianne Gallagher | ) edition.cnn.com   time to read: +7 min
In addition to this, our teams are joining the local taskforces to try to restore the most basic services and bring further supplies to Spruce Pine,” The Quartz Corp said in a statement. The Quartz Corp facility near Spruce Pine, North Carolina, is seen during a CNN flyover of the area on Monday, September 30. And while quartz is abundant around the world, the kind of ultra-high-purity quartz mined in Spruce Pine is not. The Spruce Pine mines provide an estimated 80% to 90% of the world’s high-purity quartz — experts say the exact amount is proprietary and unknown — supplying semiconductor manufacturers like chipmaking giant Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company. However, Wang said that despite the scale of the devastation in Spruce Pine, there is still reason for optimism.
Persons: Hurricane Helene, Helene, —, ”, Seaver Wang, Spencer Bost, ” Bost, ’ ” Sibelco, “, Sibelco, that’s, Gregory Allen, David Bader, CSIS’s Allen, Wang, ” Wang Organizations: New, New York CNN, Quartz Corp, Breakthrough Institute, Downtown, CNN, Belgian, Wadhwani Center, AI, Technologies, Center for Strategic, International, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company, Institute for Data Science, New Jersey Institute of Technology Locations: New York, North Carolina, Hurricane, Spruce Pine, United States, Sibelco, Silicon, Downtown Spruce, Norwegian, Spruce, Spruce Pine , North Carolina, “
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