microchip production post-emp
What is the bare minimum of equipment/materials/replacement components required to re-establish production of microcircuits after an EMP has fried the production machinery?
Has anyone ever done a study on this? Obviously unshielded microcircuits are going to be trashed, but how much of the remaining mechanism (casing, hardwiring, mechanical parts) would be unaffected and able to be reused?
I guess my question is, if you knew what needed to be replaced ahead of time, what's keeping a physically-undamaged (out of blast effect area) factory from stashing multiple multiple sets of spares and calibration tools in several dispersed seriously Faraday-caged environments, to be opened and plugged in when the EMPs stop? (The spare spares are in case the EMPs hadn't quite stopped.)
I get the image of some little independent forward-thinking microchip manufacturing company in Bear Whiz, West Virginia, becoming VERY important and of great interest to many in the post-whoops world.
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