miskChina just stopped exporting two minerals the world’s chipmakers need
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China’s exports of two rare minerals essential for manufacturing semiconductors fell to zero in August, a month after Beijing imposed curbs on sales overseas, citing national security.
China produces about 80% of the world’s gallium and about 60% of germanium, according to the Critical Raw Materials Alliance, but it didn’t sell any of the elements on international markets last month, Chinese customs data released on Wednesday showed.
In July, Beijing said the two elements, which are used in a variety of products including computer chips and solar panels, would be subject to export controls to protect the country’s “national security and interests.”
The move has ramped up a tech war with the United States over who has access to advanced chipmaking technology, which is vital for everything from smartphones and self-driving cars to weapons manufacturing.
Last October, the Biden administration unveiled a set of export controls banning Chinese companies from buying advanced chips and chip-making equipment without a license.
Beijing hit back by launching a cybersecurity probe into US chipmaker Micron in April before banning it from selling to Chinese companies working on key infrastructure projects.
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Where does the rest of the world’s gallium and germanium come from?
BigFigCanada, Finland, Russia and the United States for Germanium.
And both are usually byproducts from zinc refining
dumb ass me: “so germanium doesn’t come from Germany?!”
Well it WAS first studied and named in Germany by a German Chemist
☆ Yσɠƚԋσʂ ☆US is entering the finding out stages of fucking around.
How is Winnie Pooh doing today?
off to reddit with you
Off to a concentration camp with you, you shalt not say anything negative about the Chinese government!
Oh no, wait, those don’t exist right? They’re reeducation camps to HELP you, that’s it, that’s true, the Chinese government told me so!
yup, that’s a kind of comment I would expect to read from a completely sane person who’s not at all unhinged
And your comments are the exact kind of comments that I would expect from somebody paid by the Chinese government to glorify the holy xi.
If you’re not being paid for it then you’re even dumber than I thought
Believing that people who disagree with you on a niche platform must be paid shills of the Chinese government only further highlights how deranged you are. Describing whatever processes take care in that head of yours as thinking is pretty generous.
flying_monkiesAnd as every other time they fuck around with China, the find out will be: everything is fine
LMFAO imagine looking at the state of US right now and thinking everything is fine 😂
You really are as clueless as the day is long. Explains the Tankie mentality.
one of us certainly is 😂
US has resolvable issues they it needs to work on
See!? The US is the worst place on the world!!
Go back to stocking your nose in Winnie Pooh’s asshole
get help
Except the article states we don’t really.
So are these minerals currently 80% and 60% of the world’s supply because China has been selling it so cheap that other countries have not bothered to produce their own because it wasn’t financially worthwhile, or is it because those elements are mostly concentrated in China? Because if it’s the former, there’s not really much to worry about.