Oh come now – isn’t Russia a gas station pretending to be a country? Are we now beginning to wake up from our woke western 1000 ways to feel good fantasy? Doesn’t Hollywood have an answer? Well, what viewers will notice missing in Joe Blogg’s commentary is China. China has surpassed Taiwan as a manufacturer of semi conductors, so who is Russia going to sell its neon to? That goes for everything else. What about rare metals? Over the next 5 years or so there is going to be a high speed race for industrial & manufacturing supremacy, China is going to win, hands down. Russia as China’s major supplier in many of the natural products required is not going to be lacking in technology.
As an aside, I love the way this guy repeats ad infinitum “when Russia invaded”. Yeah, like England invaded Cornwall. I mean, the Cornish have a language don’t they? They have a distinct culture & ethnicity separate from the English. Why should not Russia, & China for that matter start talking about the oppressed Cornish people & demand support for their independence. That would be a worthwhile responsibility to protect humanitarian interventionists type project. The new Cornish Free Republic could become a member of the Eurasian Economic Union, it could request Russian & Chinese military bases.
England invaded Wales, Scotland, Ireland and had several warring tribes in-country ( the Cornish among them) until Willian the Bastard and his Norman Celts (Vikings!) took over!
No reason the Russians shouldn’t approach these oppressed ethnics, as well!
Actually the Normans were not Celts, who originated in the Danube Region and came to Britain as Iron Age settlers centuries before the Romans (who were almost a millenium before the Normans). Gaelic, Welsh and ancient Irish are all Celtic derived languages. Norman French was not. Celts, Saxons and Norse people are now all so mixed up as to be virtually indistiguishable in all of Britain. As for the video. He touched on an interesting subject that was definitely below my radar. I’ll overlook his complete ignorance of Ukraine and Russian history (Mariupol was destroyed by the Azovs mainly and Crimea was never “invaded” by Russia), as he shared it unfortunately with over 90% of the western population dependent on the MSM.
The idea that Russia is simply a gas station is probably the arrogant and xenophobic assumption held by politicians and pundits in the West which has lead the West to economic disaster. I have seen on video plenty of American pols repeat the slur and mass media push that the Russian economy is nothing to worry about. These slurs were constantly repeated by think tank pundits who where supposed to be Russian experts. Appears no experts who understood the consequences of sanctions and bans on Western economies.
For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the message was lost.
For want of a message the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
According to the video (03:10 and 5:35) the largest air separation plants are in Russia. The video further explains that the neon plants in Ukraine merely further filtered the neon produced in Russia. It is likely that the neon processing plants in Ukraine (Odessa and Mariupol) closed operations in March not because of war destruction, or danger, but because they stopped receiving Russian neon. (Video at 11:35 misstates that Odessa had been invaded by Russia, but the Odessa neon plant could as well be in Lviv and would not be functioning.)
So, when 50% of the world’s neon was coming from Ukraine and 30% from Russia, Russia was actually ur-producing 80% of the world’s neon. It still has that capacity but 5/8 of it is going to waste. What is the relative difficulty of the ur-production and the post-production? Can the latter be constructed much faster than the former? Can the Chinese do it faster than anyone? Then China may take Ukraine’s place as neon supplier.
Yes, well, with comments like “Mariupol has been completely devastated” early on in the video you really can’t expect factual accuracy in the rest of it. As always “do your own research” is as good a rule as any to find the truth, also using what the Saker provides is a good starting point.
Spot on! Excels in one thing and that is spreading the WEF Globalist Agenda’s message that; 1) all shortages are Russia’s fault, 2) Russia destroys everything in Ukraine, and 3) of course conveniently ignoring that Western sanctions play any part in the creation of these artificial shortages. In short: everything is “Russia’s fault” and at the same time our own “green” virtue-signaling politicians are without any blame.
I wondered about that, too.
But don’t have a clear enough picutre of exactly what “completely devasted” might mean in the context: perhaps industrial infrastructure in Mariupol has been devastated, even though not the residential areas?
Regarding “Excels in one thing and that is spreading the WEF Globalist Agenda’s message that; 1) all shortages are Russia’s fault, 2) Russia destroys everything in Ukraine, and 3) of course conveniently ignoring that Western sanctions play any part in the creation of these artificial shortages. In short: everything is “Russia’s fault” and at the same time our own “green” virtue-signaling politicians are without any blame.”
That certainly was not my take-away from this video. I t hink this opinion reflects a projection of some kind, or a reaction to other types of presentations applied to this one. I didn’t see any pushing of a “green” agenda. Au contraire, the presenter implies how fragile the green agenda actually is, and how dependent on industrial processes. Obviously a shortage of chips does affect portions of the green agenda. And every other industrial agenda.
The video explained the material facts and physics regarding both the production and the application of neon in the manufacture of chips.
I didn’t perceive that the presenter took any kind of political position. Actually, he appeared to be backhandedly congratulating Putin and his team for making a canny move and now being in the catbird seat regarding provision of neon and other gases. I.e., Russia of course knew what the stakes were—but the West didn’t pay attention to this portion of the game board.
He also opined on the knock-on consequences of this neon bottleneck.
To Garry Owen and others: England never invaded anywhere. The Normans invaded England and then, as the Norman-British Establishment using London as their base, they have been doing so all round the world ever since.
How many liters of Neon are used to produce 1000 microchips? What’s the impact (per microchip) if the price of Neon doubles, triples, of increases 10 fold? No answers from this “expert.” Another example of this fear mongering, Ukraine only produces a small fraction of wheat and grain consumed worldwide, yet we’re constantly led to believe that ‘a great famine will soon be upon us.’ High oil prices? NOTHING to do with the Russians, but instead by the Western reaction to the events in the Ukraine. In other words: the SANCTIONS! Last but not least: why always a HUGE double standard in the West? While Russia is being punished, Saudi Arabia has carte blanche to bomb Yemen, and NATO/US/EU had carte blanche to bomb Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria?
Very interesting video on the chip manufacturing and neon gas. I worked for Boeing about 20 years even with electronics and PCB manufacturing without considering the importance of neon and no knowledge of where it was made. Such a small item can be a big problem when you don’t have access to it.
Much noise for nothing. Fear porn for the masses.
EUV (e.G. 179nm ArF) immersion lithography is used currently in the most advanced low nm processes, for highest performance, and complexity CPUs, GPUs, SoCs, FPGAs with many billions of transistors on a chip.
Most electronics (especially power electronics) don’t use such fine processes, and extremely complex chips, so will be mostly unaffected by that.
Yes, your shiny new iJunk, “smart”phone, laptop, workstation, server or gaming console/PC might cost more, or become more scarce. So you’ll just use the old ones for longer. It’s good for the the budget, and environment too. The consumer society, and big tech will suffer most…
Quality doesn’t equal complexity. While those complex chips are the most profitable (quasi monopoly of few manufacturers) the bulk of semiconductor production (quantitatively speaking) is formed by older manufacturing technologies, lower profits but much larger market. Those also have to be high quality, as many are used in sensitive industries/processes.
It would be really wonderful if manufacturers could be persuaded to go back to producing cars and tractors, and even hearing aids without those stupid microchips. You cannot even own your own recent-model car or tractor because it contains “intellectual property” in the form of these chips, and for repairs you have to go through authorized dealers. And then there are those of us who are made sick by the pulsed, polarized, coherent, modulated, variable microwave radiation these “smart” devices use to communicate and we have been forced to the edges of society to try to avoid them. Today, in a conference of an initiative for measuring the amount of radiation from all these consumer goods, I heard from several people that they cannot find hearing aids that do not emit bluetooth radiation constantly (to coordinate between the two ears) and react to any smartphone that comes close. Why do they react to smartphones? Well, the goal is not only an “Internet of Things,” but also an “Internet of Bodies.” There are going to be a lot of sick people that have no idea why they are so sick. And note there are no meters available to public yet that allow us to measure levels of millimeter band radiation that cars emit.
Bless Russia for this monkeywrench in the gears of global techno-medical slavery!
“It would be really wonderful if manufacturers could be persuaded to go back to producing cars and tractors, and even hearing aids without those stupid microchips. . . . Bless Russia for this monkey wrench in the gears of global techno-medical slavery!”
My thoughts exactly!!!
Who asked for any of this?
Who asked for or voted for 4G, 5G, now 6G?
No one, that’s who.
The whole chip mania is profoundly anti-democratic and leads to steady erosion of autonomy and privacy and control over one’s own body and near environment.
For this reason alone the “green” revolution that depends on total surveillance by means of one’s use of electric power and “smart” grids is suspect.
I do enjoy and truly depend on my computer with WiFi.
But that is as far as I’ll go.
No “smart” phone for me.
I prefer not to be micro-chipped.
In fact, I have decided to refer to smart phones as chips, as in “Are you carrying your microchip?”
“It would be really wonderful if manufacturers could be persuaded to go back to producing cars and tractors, and even hearing aids without those stupid microchips.”
Russia is indeed doing this, first changing production on existing models to exclude imported tech, and also developing simpler-tech cars and trucks from scratch.
I really hate to have to be “Captain Obvious”,but isn’t it past-time for China and Russia to ban the export of antimony. That the US needs to make their ammunition with.And needs to buy from China and Russia. Maybe they need to think a bit on Lenin’s saying about …”they will sell us the rope used to hang them with”:
Today in the heading “Did you know?”
Ammunition production in the US is highly dependent on supplies from China and Russia. Congress wants to do something about it.
We are talking primarily about antimony, which is used in the cores of bullets, cartridges, shells, even in nuclear weapons and in a bunch of other products of the American defense industry.
During World War II, the Japanese blocked Chinese supplies of antimony to the United States. Then the Americans began to extract it on their own at a mine in Idaho. But it was fully developed by 1997. America has no other way to extract antimony.
There are strategic reserves of rare earth materials left, but they are depleted. In the 50s they pulled $42 billion in today’s dollars, and now only $888 million. Congress is sounding the alarm. Shouts: “Asshole! We must do something! Replenish at any cost!”
The States now only import antimony. Mostly from China, which is the largest producer in the world. On the second place Russia, on the third Tajikistan.
It’s a by-product in steel production thus any western country that still have steel production if any left as it is called environmental unfriendly production and the west is soo green…
Oh come now – isn’t Russia a gas station pretending to be a country? Are we now beginning to wake up from our woke western 1000 ways to feel good fantasy? Doesn’t Hollywood have an answer? Well, what viewers will notice missing in Joe Blogg’s commentary is China. China has surpassed Taiwan as a manufacturer of semi conductors, so who is Russia going to sell its neon to? That goes for everything else. What about rare metals? Over the next 5 years or so there is going to be a high speed race for industrial & manufacturing supremacy, China is going to win, hands down. Russia as China’s major supplier in many of the natural products required is not going to be lacking in technology.
As an aside, I love the way this guy repeats ad infinitum “when Russia invaded”. Yeah, like England invaded Cornwall. I mean, the Cornish have a language don’t they? They have a distinct culture & ethnicity separate from the English. Why should not Russia, & China for that matter start talking about the oppressed Cornish people & demand support for their independence. That would be a worthwhile responsibility to protect humanitarian interventionists type project. The new Cornish Free Republic could become a member of the Eurasian Economic Union, it could request Russian & Chinese military bases.
England invaded Wales, Scotland, Ireland and had several warring tribes in-country ( the Cornish among them) until Willian the Bastard and his Norman Celts (Vikings!) took over!
No reason the Russians shouldn’t approach these oppressed ethnics, as well!
>England invaded Wales, Scotland, Ireland
and have been subsidising them ever since! 😜
Back to the video, I found it mildly interesting… until the presenter commented about “Russia invading Crimea”…
Really? I must have missed that, when was it, exactly???
I am trying to work that one out as well!!
Not in Scotland as the North Sea oil was in Scottish territory.
Actually the Normans were not Celts, who originated in the Danube Region and came to Britain as Iron Age settlers centuries before the Romans (who were almost a millenium before the Normans). Gaelic, Welsh and ancient Irish are all Celtic derived languages. Norman French was not. Celts, Saxons and Norse people are now all so mixed up as to be virtually indistiguishable in all of Britain. As for the video. He touched on an interesting subject that was definitely below my radar. I’ll overlook his complete ignorance of Ukraine and Russian history (Mariupol was destroyed by the Azovs mainly and Crimea was never “invaded” by Russia), as he shared it unfortunately with over 90% of the western population dependent on the MSM.
The USA is now a big burger outlet pretending to be a country
The idea that Russia is simply a gas station is probably the arrogant and xenophobic assumption held by politicians and pundits in the West which has lead the West to economic disaster. I have seen on video plenty of American pols repeat the slur and mass media push that the Russian economy is nothing to worry about. These slurs were constantly repeated by think tank pundits who where supposed to be Russian experts. Appears no experts who understood the consequences of sanctions and bans on Western economies.
Buzzwords a poppin’!
Bottleneck.
My kingdom for a chip.
For want of a nail . . .
For Want of a Nail
For want of a nail the shoe was lost.
For want of a shoe the horse was lost.
For want of a horse the rider was lost.
For want of a rider the message was lost.
For want of a message the battle was lost.
For want of a battle the kingdom was lost.
And all for the want of a horseshoe nail.
According to the video (03:10 and 5:35) the largest air separation plants are in Russia. The video further explains that the neon plants in Ukraine merely further filtered the neon produced in Russia. It is likely that the neon processing plants in Ukraine (Odessa and Mariupol) closed operations in March not because of war destruction, or danger, but because they stopped receiving Russian neon. (Video at 11:35 misstates that Odessa had been invaded by Russia, but the Odessa neon plant could as well be in Lviv and would not be functioning.)
So, when 50% of the world’s neon was coming from Ukraine and 30% from Russia, Russia was actually ur-producing 80% of the world’s neon. It still has that capacity but 5/8 of it is going to waste. What is the relative difficulty of the ur-production and the post-production? Can the latter be constructed much faster than the former? Can the Chinese do it faster than anyone? Then China may take Ukraine’s place as neon supplier.
Yes, well, with comments like “Mariupol has been completely devastated” early on in the video you really can’t expect factual accuracy in the rest of it. As always “do your own research” is as good a rule as any to find the truth, also using what the Saker provides is a good starting point.
Spot on! Excels in one thing and that is spreading the WEF Globalist Agenda’s message that; 1) all shortages are Russia’s fault, 2) Russia destroys everything in Ukraine, and 3) of course conveniently ignoring that Western sanctions play any part in the creation of these artificial shortages. In short: everything is “Russia’s fault” and at the same time our own “green” virtue-signaling politicians are without any blame.
Re ” “Mariupol has been completely devastated””
I wondered about that, too.
But don’t have a clear enough picutre of exactly what “completely devasted” might mean in the context: perhaps industrial infrastructure in Mariupol has been devastated, even though not the residential areas?
Regarding “Excels in one thing and that is spreading the WEF Globalist Agenda’s message that; 1) all shortages are Russia’s fault, 2) Russia destroys everything in Ukraine, and 3) of course conveniently ignoring that Western sanctions play any part in the creation of these artificial shortages. In short: everything is “Russia’s fault” and at the same time our own “green” virtue-signaling politicians are without any blame.”
That certainly was not my take-away from this video. I t hink this opinion reflects a projection of some kind, or a reaction to other types of presentations applied to this one. I didn’t see any pushing of a “green” agenda. Au contraire, the presenter implies how fragile the green agenda actually is, and how dependent on industrial processes. Obviously a shortage of chips does affect portions of the green agenda. And every other industrial agenda.
The video explained the material facts and physics regarding both the production and the application of neon in the manufacture of chips.
I didn’t perceive that the presenter took any kind of political position. Actually, he appeared to be backhandedly congratulating Putin and his team for making a canny move and now being in the catbird seat regarding provision of neon and other gases. I.e., Russia of course knew what the stakes were—but the West didn’t pay attention to this portion of the game board.
He also opined on the knock-on consequences of this neon bottleneck.
I highly recommend the video.
While is good to see a report on the Neon gas problem. The video itself is very anti-Russian. Which is problematic I think.
I just don’t see this video as “anti-Russian.”
Furthermore, even if it were “anti-Russian,” it still provides very useful information about neon.
I didn’t know anything about neon.
Are you challenging the information itself?
To Garry Owen and others: England never invaded anywhere. The Normans invaded England and then, as the Norman-British Establishment using London as their base, they have been doing so all round the world ever since.
England invaded Scotland and Ireland, many, many times.
How many liters of Neon are used to produce 1000 microchips? What’s the impact (per microchip) if the price of Neon doubles, triples, of increases 10 fold? No answers from this “expert.” Another example of this fear mongering, Ukraine only produces a small fraction of wheat and grain consumed worldwide, yet we’re constantly led to believe that ‘a great famine will soon be upon us.’ High oil prices? NOTHING to do with the Russians, but instead by the Western reaction to the events in the Ukraine. In other words: the SANCTIONS! Last but not least: why always a HUGE double standard in the West? While Russia is being punished, Saudi Arabia has carte blanche to bomb Yemen, and NATO/US/EU had carte blanche to bomb Libya, Iraq, Afghanistan and Syria?
Very interesting video on the chip manufacturing and neon gas. I worked for Boeing about 20 years even with electronics and PCB manufacturing without considering the importance of neon and no knowledge of where it was made. Such a small item can be a big problem when you don’t have access to it.
Interesting info.
Looking at his other videos he’s a bit of a Russia is doomed prophet.
Much noise for nothing. Fear porn for the masses.
EUV (e.G. 179nm ArF) immersion lithography is used currently in the most advanced low nm processes, for highest performance, and complexity CPUs, GPUs, SoCs, FPGAs with many billions of transistors on a chip.
Most electronics (especially power electronics) don’t use such fine processes, and extremely complex chips, so will be mostly unaffected by that.
Yes, your shiny new iJunk, “smart”phone, laptop, workstation, server or gaming console/PC might cost more, or become more scarce. So you’ll just use the old ones for longer. It’s good for the the budget, and environment too. The consumer society, and big tech will suffer most…
“Yes, your shiny new iJunk, “smart”phone, laptop, workstation, server or gaming console/PC might cost more, or become more scarce. ”
The presenter points this out—that not all application require the highest-quality chips
Quality doesn’t equal complexity. While those complex chips are the most profitable (quasi monopoly of few manufacturers) the bulk of semiconductor production (quantitatively speaking) is formed by older manufacturing technologies, lower profits but much larger market. Those also have to be high quality, as many are used in sensitive industries/processes.
That’s what I meant—the presenter pointed out that not all applications require highest-complexity chips with most expensive production processes.
It would be really wonderful if manufacturers could be persuaded to go back to producing cars and tractors, and even hearing aids without those stupid microchips. You cannot even own your own recent-model car or tractor because it contains “intellectual property” in the form of these chips, and for repairs you have to go through authorized dealers. And then there are those of us who are made sick by the pulsed, polarized, coherent, modulated, variable microwave radiation these “smart” devices use to communicate and we have been forced to the edges of society to try to avoid them. Today, in a conference of an initiative for measuring the amount of radiation from all these consumer goods, I heard from several people that they cannot find hearing aids that do not emit bluetooth radiation constantly (to coordinate between the two ears) and react to any smartphone that comes close. Why do they react to smartphones? Well, the goal is not only an “Internet of Things,” but also an “Internet of Bodies.” There are going to be a lot of sick people that have no idea why they are so sick. And note there are no meters available to public yet that allow us to measure levels of millimeter band radiation that cars emit.
Bless Russia for this monkeywrench in the gears of global techno-medical slavery!
“It would be really wonderful if manufacturers could be persuaded to go back to producing cars and tractors, and even hearing aids without those stupid microchips. . . . Bless Russia for this monkey wrench in the gears of global techno-medical slavery!”
My thoughts exactly!!!
Who asked for any of this?
Who asked for or voted for 4G, 5G, now 6G?
No one, that’s who.
The whole chip mania is profoundly anti-democratic and leads to steady erosion of autonomy and privacy and control over one’s own body and near environment.
For this reason alone the “green” revolution that depends on total surveillance by means of one’s use of electric power and “smart” grids is suspect.
I do enjoy and truly depend on my computer with WiFi.
But that is as far as I’ll go.
No “smart” phone for me.
I prefer not to be micro-chipped.
In fact, I have decided to refer to smart phones as chips, as in “Are you carrying your microchip?”
“It would be really wonderful if manufacturers could be persuaded to go back to producing cars and tractors, and even hearing aids without those stupid microchips.”
Russia is indeed doing this, first changing production on existing models to exclude imported tech, and also developing simpler-tech cars and trucks from scratch.
Hi keep up the good work
I really hate to have to be “Captain Obvious”,but isn’t it past-time for China and Russia to ban the export of antimony. That the US needs to make their ammunition with.And needs to buy from China and Russia. Maybe they need to think a bit on Lenin’s saying about …”they will sell us the rope used to hang them with”:
Today in the heading “Did you know?”
Ammunition production in the US is highly dependent on supplies from China and Russia. Congress wants to do something about it.
We are talking primarily about antimony, which is used in the cores of bullets, cartridges, shells, even in nuclear weapons and in a bunch of other products of the American defense industry.
During World War II, the Japanese blocked Chinese supplies of antimony to the United States. Then the Americans began to extract it on their own at a mine in Idaho. But it was fully developed by 1997. America has no other way to extract antimony.
There are strategic reserves of rare earth materials left, but they are depleted. In the 50s they pulled $42 billion in today’s dollars, and now only $888 million. Congress is sounding the alarm. Shouts: “Asshole! We must do something! Replenish at any cost!”
The States now only import antimony. Mostly from China, which is the largest producer in the world. On the second place Russia, on the third Tajikistan.
It’s a by-product in steel production thus any western country that still have steel production if any left as it is called environmental unfriendly production and the west is soo green…