But fears about a serious disruption to global chipmaking following Hurricane Helene may be overstated. High-purity quartz found in Spruce Pine is a key material used in the production of silicon wafers that are used to make semiconductors.

A new study says hurricanes in the United States are hundreds of times deadlier in the long run than the government calculates

Speaking in Georgia, Trump laced into Harris, Biden and Walz, even as he acknowledged it wasn’t the time or place.

The process of rebuilding after Hurricane Helene will be extremely costly and take years, U.S. Homeland Security Secretary Alejandro Mayorkas said on Tuesday. Search and rescue operations are still going on in some areas,

Many areas in North Carolina were hit hard by the storm, including Spruce Pine, an area crucial to the semiconductor industry. Hurricane Helene’s path of destruction last week is still being felt in a number of states and the long-term impacts of the storm are still being assessed.

The death toll has risen to at least 175 across the Southeast since Hurricane Helene made landfall in Florida as a Category 4 storm last week, and hundreds are still missing amid the historic flooding.