Israel
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Country supplying 97.5% of South Korea's bromine for semiconductor etch chemicals.
Cloudflare says autocrats, wars and elections caged the internet in Q1
Cloudflare's Q1 2026 report documents a surge in internet disruptions driven by military conflict, government shutdowns, and elections. Iran shut down the internet for 61 days after Israel-US military strikes on Febru...
The Bromine Chokepoint: How Strife Could Halt Production of World’s Memory Chips
South Korea's 97.5% dependence on Israeli bromine for semiconductor etch gas creates a potential global DRAM/NAND production chokepoint if Iranian strikes disrupt the Negev's irreplaceable extraction complex.
Microsoft hints at bit bunkers for war zones
Microsoft is hardening datacenters across the Persian Gulf—spanning UAE, Qatar, Israel, and Saudi Arabia—after Iranian kinetic attacks on regional cloud facilities threatened OpenAI's Stargate infrastructure.