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MIDDLE EAST STRIFE THREATENS GLOBAL CHIP MEMORY SUPPLY

A critical shortage of bromine—a chemical essential for memory chip production—could cripple semiconductor manufacturing if Middle Eastern instability disrupts supply chains. The region produces the vast majority of the world's bromine.

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