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6 months agoConsidering how tired and sleepy I feel, they may be winning this one.
Considering how tired and sleepy I feel, they may be winning this one.
Silicon itself is certainly not rare (even if the purification process is somewhat exigent on the feedstock), but modern chips uses a lot of rare-ish elements in their makeup (hafnium for mosfet gates, gold for chip/package connexion, etc…).
Y’know, I first read the image, and it felt like “Oh, so Man1 isn’t feeling great, so his friend Men2 tells him to come to have at his place to talk about it or just do something fun. That’s a nice friendship”.
That perception did not survived the rest of the text.