Its High-purity polyphenylene ether resin and the issue is the orange dickhead causing the strait of hormuz to close.
/eeew, techspot uses ai generated pictures of pcbs. gross
this post was submitted on 16 Jun 2026
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In fairness, it's almost impossible to find a photo of a real PCB. They're just so very rare.
I know right? Like, how would one even get within a few feet of one, let alone a bare one in the wild to take a photo of it. They're sooo skittish.
for context, this is something that will matter especially for higher-end boards, specifically boards that handle higher frequency signals than usual, think 5G connectivity things, or where engineering margins are thin. if there's a will, they could fly that plastic pellets out of saudi, or set up other logistics routes, as long as cost increase over just using container ship would be justified. it'll be only a fraction of mass of laminate in any case
Jet fuel issues, flying makes no sense.
all that jet fuel is right there
Lol. Well that fixes everything.
well it would be if refineries nearby would be running, but they don't, because there's no good logistics chain in place
...and if planes didn't need to refuel at their destinations.
that destination could be still somewhere with access to stranded fuel and with access to other port, like oman, or they could perhaps truck it to yanbu and ship from there, but it doesn't matter because price increase would probably need to be even bigger for it to make sense. facility would also need to run only on fraction of capacity, and there's probably no point in that if you can't export everything that's made there. currently it might be damaged anyway. what i mean is, there are problems solvable by throwing money at them, but it's probably not one of these
It’s petroleums all the way down.
Hydrogen?
Edit: nope, a specific resin they can't just replace because the whole production chain is way too stuck in their ways. Great riddance.
That's a clickbaity title.