The Iran war is tightening global tech supply chains by cutting off helium from Qatar, a key source of the gas used in ...

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The U.S.-Israel war with Iran is threatening the global helium supply. Qatar produces over a third of the world's helium, ...

Helium is a critical gas for fibre optics, semiconductors and medical technology - PonyWang/E+. The AI boom is under threat ...

Supply allocations are being set by who needs the gas the most. Semiconductors are at the "top of the pecking order," said ...

The closure of the Strait of Hormuz has trapped a third of the world’s commercial helium, threatening the irreplaceable ...

The Persian Gulf war has disrupted helium supplies to Taiwan, putting TSMC's advanced chip manufacturing under an ...

About 30 percent of the world's helium supply depends on the Strait of Hormuz. Its closure means higher prices for tech ...

Helium is well known as the gas that makes balloons float and voices higher, but it's also found in some hard drives. Here's ...

The heated race to achieve the extreme cold that quantum technologies demand may have a frontrunner. Chinese scientists have ...

Qatar’s exports of natural gas and helium—the latter essential for MRI scans—were effectively halted after Iran closed the Strait of Hormuz and attacked one of the world’s largest production ...

To deal with helium shortages from the war in Iran, Washington must treat helium as strategic, coordinate with allies, build redundancy, and incentivize recovery technologies. Everyone is watching the ...