Iran war disrupts the circuit board supply chain, raises costs for tech firms(www.reuters.com)

43 pointsby croes2 days ago7 comments

afpx2 days ago
I can't access the article, but I'm curious how the US spending $25B on equipment has dramatically affected the price of circuit boards.
fsagx2 days ago
Just re-ran an identical order from December, and a PCB from Shenzhen is up just around 4% so far.
dgellow2 days ago
Add that to the heap of ongoing crisis… what a year, not even half through
k3102 days ago
My opinion is that Trump has walked into quicksand with this war of "Weapons of Mass Distraction" from illegally concealed Epstein Files evidence.
A "forever war" works only if it was planned as a domestic control strategy, and this seems so unplanned, with inane diversions such as his bunker ballroom and focus on seashells, similar in ways to Emperor Caligula's seashell harvest.[0]
It would seem that he's buying time to think up some escape mechanism, as the damage and disruption mounts.
[0] https://www.historyskills.com/classroom/ancient-history/cali...
- dgellow2 days ago
  I wouldn’t give him that much credits to be honest
  - cyanydeeza day ago
    yeah, most likely what's going on is various project 2025, Russian interests and the bog standard military industrial complex are all pushing him in their preferred direction and instead of say, choosing one over the other, his dimentia means he's just going to choose all of them cause it's not like he had rational consistency before the dimentia so why would that matter anymore.
hulitu2 days ago
> raises costs for tech firms
they can always lobby the government.
robthebrew2 days ago
yes, but Trump is winning, and Melania isn't a skank. Right?
- 2 days ago
  undefined
juliusceasar2 days ago
Israel hasn't have enough of landgrabbing...