• TheChurn@kbin.social
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    11 months ago

    The form of silicon used in semiconductor manufacturing, specific formations of sand, is becoming harder to source from the environment. Silicon the element is incredibly abundant - the vast majority of all rocks on Earth are silicates - so there isn’t a risk that we run out of silicon itself any time soon.

    What may happen, in several decades, is an increase in price due to the need to process more abundant rocks to obtain pure silicon.