Comment by maxander

This sort of thing shows how scarily centralized electronics production is. If a disruption at one plant can take out 3.5% of global production, how many of these plants are there? On the order of 30? Imagine a terrorist group decides to bomb them all simultaneously; there goes the production of every device that uses these chips, potentially for years. Are they needed for something critical? How many products do we rely on that all come from the same dozen or so places?