One town makes every EUV machine: the world's single-point supply chokepoints mapped
sahilypatel · x · 2026-10-11
A concise tour of extreme geographic concentration in global supply chains:
- Yiwu, China: 80% of the world's Christmas decorations
- Sialkot, Pakistan: 70% of hand-stitched footballs
- Spruce Pine, North Carolina: 70-90% of the world's high-purity quartz, a critical semiconductor input
- Veldhoven, Netherlands: the sole source of every EUV chipmaking machine on Earth (ASML's home)
The list underlines how much of global production — from consumer goods to cutting-edge chip equipment — depends on single points of failure.
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