Neon: The Waste Gas That Almost Broke Every Chip Factory on Earth

Neon makes up 18 parts per million of the air around you — and it's a byproduct of steelmaking, not something anyone mines. For two years it quietly became one of the most concentrated chokepoints in the entire semiconductor industry.

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