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The pandemic caused lots of shortages from personal protective equipment to laptops to bicycles,

but one supply shortage could slow down the economy for months. Even after COVID is gone.

That's the global shortage of chips, not lace chips, but semi-conductor chips.

The types of silicon that power everything from our computers to our cars.

Rico Jurebek a high-while has been covering the shortage here, Becca.

Hey. So this feels like this sort of niche problem, but semi-conductors are in everything.

So tell me what exactly a semi-conductor is.

Semi-conductors or chips are basically the building block of all the devices that we're

using today. You know, the computers in your refrigerator or the computers in your car,

their phones in many computers. All of that is being made with these tiny little chips that are

powering these technologies. And they're really important because we don't just need them for

entertainment. We need them to work and learn. And especially during the pandemic, when we're

doing all of these things from home and you not only have your devices at your school or your

office, many people also have a whole second electronic setup at their house.

And what kind of problems is a chip shortage going to cause? Like, talk me through

how does this play out in the world that we experience in the world we care about in every day

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