Comment on The dead end of chips: Manufacturing semiconductors consumes as much energy as entire countries

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Bassman1805@lemmy.world ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

The vast, vast majority of chips produced are “old generation” chips used for relatively mundane purposes. The high-tech stuff you see in the news is a minority (though it’s pricey enough that it doesn’t look that way in company earnings reports).

Think power supplies, middle-of-the-road CPUs, ASICs for common I/O like USB and ethernet, timing devices, and wireless communication modules.

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