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49 The world is overly reliant on one US-located mine for critical chipmaking material, but China is working to break the stranglehold — China investing over $14 million in synthetic quartz manufacturing to diversify away from US dependency

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Tom's Hardware · today 07:40 EDT

The world is overly reliant on one US-located mine for critical chipmaking material, but China is working to break the stranglehold — China investing over $14 million in synthetic quartz manufacturing to diversify away from US dependency

High-purity quartz is crucial for semiconductor manufacturing, and you can only get it naturally from the mine in North Carolina.

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