The Semiconductor Neon Shortage

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Russia invading Ukraine has major potential effects on the global semiconductor production industry. Not because the countries host big semiconductor fabs, but because Ukraine is the world's leading supplier of neon gas.

Neon gas is a critical material for the production of certain chips. And this has led to renewed concerns about another chip shortage.

I have been asked to review the topic. In this brief video, we are going to take a look at how fabs use and conserve neon in the semiconductor manufacturing process.

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