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