Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-week clock

Re:Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-wee... by SideQuark on Friday March 13, 2026 @06:22PM (#47370754)

Removing 30% of the supply of a very important, and completely irreplaceable for most of its uses, resource isn’t hysteria.

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Re:Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-wee... by happyopossum on Friday March 13, 2026 @10:21PM (#47372648)

The point is it doesn’t take giant tankers going through the Strait of Hormuz to move this volume. It could be handled by tanker trucks going to Suez….

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Re:Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-wee... by deceptionatd on Friday March 13, 2026 @11:33PM (#47373066)

This has nothing to do with transport. Iranian drone strikes disabled a Qatari helium _production_ facility.

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Re:Qatar helium shutdown puts chip supply chain on a two-wee... by paulsutter on Saturday March 14, 2026 @02:33PM (#47379648)

You should be able to make a killing placing commodity bets right now, because you have such crystal clear vision for the causal chain currently underway

What are your top positions? You will never need to work again!

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