Chinese sources said the price of neon gas has risen almost ninefold in the past three weeks, from 1,850 yuan to 16,000 yuan ($2,500) per cubic meter. The rise in price is due to the situation in Ukraine, which produced 45-54% of the world volume of neon. Since February 24, all this volume has become unavailable after the shutdown of factories in Mariupol and Odessa, which caused an increase in prices on the world market. Now neon is produced only in China and Russia.

Chip manufacturers have stock of only 2-3 months and one month is already almost gone.

Neon is used in excimer lasers in photolithographic installations (scanners) as a consumable material. Without this gas, it is simply impossible to organize the production of semiconductors. To continue working, gas will have to be bought at any price.

I see extreme panic posts in Taiwanese media, as China and Russia already started to discuss terms of new neon supplies.

TSMC can be forced to start production of Russian and Huawei chips again. Or stop totally.

US Senator Elizabeth Warren proposes a bill to freeze any Russian citizen owned cryptocurrency account.

This can mean only that in key crypto scam currencies they can do it due to control.

The University of Florida has removed Communist Manifesto author Karl Marx – whom the university has called a “philosopher, radical economist and revolutionary critic” – from the name of a study room in the library. Incredibly, the school claims the decision is based on Russia’s invasion of Ukraine.

The University of Florida told The National Desk that given the current events in Ukraine and elsewhere in the world it determined it was appropriate to remove Karl Marx's name, which was placed on the group study room in 2014..

The first billion rubles on Google accounts was arrested at the suit of the Tsargrad TV channel. Bank accounts are blocked by bailiffs in pursuance of a court decision at the request of the First Russian TV Channel.

Ignoring the court decision at the request of the Tsargrad TV channel to unblock the illegally deleted YouTube channel led to the inevitable end for Google. As it became known, the bank accounts of Google LLC were arrested by bailiffs.

At the moment, enforcement orders have been issued, enforcement proceedings have been initiated, funds have been arrested on Google accounts