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Supply chain for liquid and gas materials in the USA is quite robust. The western hemisphere's largest industrial complex (the Gulf Coast refining industry) can
by reaperman 2y ago
Supply chain for liquid and gas materials in the USA is quite robust. The western hemisphere's largest industrial complex (the Gulf Coast refining industry) can or does supply plenty of anything you can think of - including everything you mentioned at whatever purity you can imagine.
But cost is much higher than in China, and things like "bare wafers" are not included in that petrochemical output.
- sevensor 2y ago> everything you mentioned at whatever purity you can imagine. Are you familiar with the trace metals requirements of semiconductor processing? And the volume of an iso tank? And the volatility of the petrochemical refining industry? I wouldn’t write off the difficulty of maintaining qualified suppliers quite so cavalierly.