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Factory to Your Front Door: Inside the Global Supply Chain
Motley Fool Money
How Does Microchips Transform Manufacturing?
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i love how improbable it is that quartz sand starts in appalatia, of all places. It's then shipped half way around the world, where it's melted down and turned into like a single crystal of silicon. Microchips really embody the way that manufacturing and supply chains have become one and the same. So with microchips, especially, the journey is unbelievably long. And the supply chain is so long that it is tremendously vulnerable to disruption. Because ditionally, at least, chip shipping has been so cheap.
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