Chipmakers don’t expect war in Ukraine to lead to additional shortages – Computer – News

If Ukraine turns out to be relatively easy to ingest, you can bet that it doesn’t stop there.

I’d say that too, but it’s probably not that bad. Further west is a belt of NATO countries (not Moldova and Belarus/Belarus). The idea is that if one of the NATO countries is attacked, it is seen as an attack on all NATO countries. Putin does not benefit from that.

Putin is concerned about the influence of the west, which is shifting to Russia. In that context, it is logical that Ukraine can act as a buffer against this. I don’t think we can help Ukraine just because we want to. I’m guessing Ukraine is going to be a strange situation, with some sort of puppet government headed by the Kremlin running the country. Ukraine is then actually Russian, although the official status may be different.

And I’m guessing that’s it for now. I don’t think Putin has his sights on NATO countries. With the current tensions that means direct war, I assume and given the Russian economy is comparable in size to the Benelux, we should not expect much action, I think. Deploying nuclear bombs is not an option, either Russia will not succeed in deploying them effectively because there are too many strings behind the stage to prevent that, or they would succeed, but then it might be all in against Russia, so that would be suicide I think.

The most logical is that Putin wants to keep his position of power. And then I think Ukraine is one of them. Perhaps we can’t do much formally there internationally, unfortunately, but that is what it is, unfortunately.

In terms of chips, there could be additional shortages. Due to the international tensions, there is a need for military strength and chips can be part of that.

In any case, the tensions are a good time to reflect on reducing our need for fossil fuels. EVs would better less bad for the environment, but I honestly do not believe that we are going to “save” the environment with that. Firstly, we are still harming the environment, the discussion is a yes/no EV is better (I’ve never heard anyone suggest taking the (electric) bicycle to work), while the impact on sea level rise (me) is not. is known. While that is precisely what is relevant within the environment. A higher sea level means more expensive dikes or uninhabitable areas in the Netherlands.
But with an EV we are less in need of fossil fuels and with that we get a more favorable geopolitical balance. And we now see how we can reap the benefits there.

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