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…“But because this vast system is so complex, it is also vulnerable.

We have covered before how a drought in Taiwan back in 2021, restricted production at a TMSC facility there, where 90% of the world’s most advanced silicon chips are made.

Or how, in the very same year, an exceptional cold snap held up production at a semiconductor fabrication plant in Texas.

Storm Helene is exposing another of those vulnerabilities, a critical pinch point in the entire global supply chain…