#pcbshortage — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #pcbshortage, aggregated by home.social.
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“Most of us probably have a mental image of tankers sailing through the Strait of Hormuz laden with Gulf crude, off to be processed by refineries somewhere else in the world. Certainly a load of oil takes just that route, but for the Saudis and other oil-producing nations in the region, it also makes economic sense to site petrochemical industries at source.
They export the much more valuable refined products, among which is the polymer #resin used in #PCBProduction. The Reuters report says that consequent to this and a rise in #copper prices, the cost of a #PCB in China has risen by 40%. Naturally this doesn’t sound like good news”
#HackADay / #computing / #shortages / #PCBShortage <https://hackaday.com/2026/05/06/youve-seen-the-chip-shortage-and-the-memory-shortage-now-prepare-for-the-pcb-shortage/>
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“Most of us probably have a mental image of tankers sailing through the Strait of Hormuz laden with Gulf crude, off to be processed by refineries somewhere else in the world. Certainly a load of oil takes just that route, but for the Saudis and other oil-producing nations in the region, it also makes economic sense to site petrochemical industries at source.
They export the much more valuable refined products, among which is the polymer #resin used in #PCBProduction. The Reuters report says that consequent to this and a rise in #copper prices, the cost of a #PCB in China has risen by 40%. Naturally this doesn’t sound like good news”
#HackADay / #computing / #shortages / #PCBShortage <https://hackaday.com/2026/05/06/youve-seen-the-chip-shortage-and-the-memory-shortage-now-prepare-for-the-pcb-shortage/>
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“Most of us probably have a mental image of tankers sailing through the Strait of Hormuz laden with Gulf crude, off to be processed by refineries somewhere else in the world. Certainly a load of oil takes just that route, but for the Saudis and other oil-producing nations in the region, it also makes economic sense to site petrochemical industries at source.
They export the much more valuable refined products, among which is the polymer #resin used in #PCBProduction. The Reuters report says that consequent to this and a rise in #copper prices, the cost of a #PCB in China has risen by 40%. Naturally this doesn’t sound like good news”
#HackADay / #computing / #shortages / #PCBShortage <https://hackaday.com/2026/05/06/youve-seen-the-chip-shortage-and-the-memory-shortage-now-prepare-for-the-pcb-shortage/>
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“Most of us probably have a mental image of tankers sailing through the Strait of Hormuz laden with Gulf crude, off to be processed by refineries somewhere else in the world. Certainly a load of oil takes just that route, but for the Saudis and other oil-producing nations in the region, it also makes economic sense to site petrochemical industries at source.
They export the much more valuable refined products, among which is the polymer #resin used in #PCBProduction. The Reuters report says that consequent to this and a rise in #copper prices, the cost of a #PCB in China has risen by 40%. Naturally this doesn’t sound like good news”
#HackADay / #computing / #shortages / #PCBShortage <https://hackaday.com/2026/05/06/youve-seen-the-chip-shortage-and-the-memory-shortage-now-prepare-for-the-pcb-shortage/>
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“Most of us probably have a mental image of tankers sailing through the Strait of Hormuz laden with Gulf crude, off to be processed by refineries somewhere else in the world. Certainly a load of oil takes just that route, but for the Saudis and other oil-producing nations in the region, it also makes economic sense to site petrochemical industries at source.
They export the much more valuable refined products, among which is the polymer #resin used in #PCBProduction. The Reuters report says that consequent to this and a rise in #copper prices, the cost of a #PCB in China has risen by 40%. Naturally this doesn’t sound like good news”
#HackADay / #computing / #shortages / #PCBShortage <https://hackaday.com/2026/05/06/youve-seen-the-chip-shortage-and-the-memory-shortage-now-prepare-for-the-pcb-shortage/>