Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

I remember hearing somewhere on this site that medical imaging got pretty good at building systems that recycle helium. Does chip manufacturing not do this or are the losses at their scale are still large enough that you need a substantial constant supply?

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Aren’t there huge stockpiles of helium in the US? I can buy party sized tanks at Target or big tanks at the usual places like welding supply places.

So the RAM prices are going to skyrocket again?

Great timing that the US recently sold its strategic helium supply.

It's almost like war is a bad thing.

Somewhat tangential question - for the "Just Stop Oil" folks - is it the extraction of oil that is the problem, or the burning of it? If the former, then we have an opportunity to investigate more renewable sources.

Iran will make AI go pop.

Lindsay Graham has an easy solution to this unnecessary conflict: send your sons and daughters.

This whole administration is such a fiasco.

Remember all the e/acc people telling us to vote for Trump? Some mea-culpas are in order.

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Do you remember this quote from wheel of time?

"Let the lord of chaos rule" ...

Qatar is probably intentionally shutting down production of gas and oil in order to pressure the US to stop, independently of Iranian attacks.

In that respect they may be bombed by Iran but they have the same interests