Introduction

This week we discuss why the darling semiconductor industry is unfortunately a heavy polluter and what the industry can do about it. Semiconductors power everything from computers to cars to refrigerators to the entire energy grid they even power the machines that make them like some weird technological matriarch. In 2023 not only is the great chip shortage over but there is likely an oversupply of semiconductors due to the surge in production caused by both organic demand and demand buoyed by regulations.