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The Bromine Chokepoint

Hacker News Top ↗ · 2026-04-19 Cached

A critical vulnerability in global semiconductor supply chains centers on bromine, a non-substitutable raw material for manufacturing DRAM and NAND flash memory. South Korea sources 97.5% of its bromine imports from Israel, and recent Iranian missile strikes near Israel's Dead Sea extraction facilities pose an immediate risk to global chip production.

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