(Natural News) Russia’s Ministry of Trade and Industry has announced that the country will limit until the end of 2022 the exports of noble gases such as neon, which is an essential element in making computer chips. The move is expected to worsen the ongoing supply crunch in the global chip market. Ukraine was also […]

(Natural News) A gas that is essential to the production of microchips could see supply disruptions amid the ongoing conflict in Ukraine. About 90 percent of the semiconductor-grade neon used by the United States to produce chips comes from Ukraine, it turns out. And with Ukraine already cutting off exports of wheat, some worry that […]