Oh, and the quartz to make the crucibles for making the required silicon wafers all comes from one cave system in North Carolina? Dude, this is just lazy worldbuilding, the market would never sustain monopolies like this.
The more I learn about the semiconductor supply chain, the more implausible it all seems. There’s a small island vulnerable to invasion where all the chips are made? And the machines to make them all come from one firm in the Netherlands? Using lenses made by one firm in Germany?
okay, so a synthesiser, or synth for short, is an electronic musical instrument that creates audio signals through, well, synthesis! instead of producing sound acoustically like a guitar or piano, it generates sound waves electronically.
we had one shot at an (eventually) economically viable way of ending the torture of billions of animals and decided to make it a criminal offense to even try it