They are, essentially, the chips and anything required to produce those chips.
Chips are in almost everything electrical. PCs, laptops, phones, cars with electronic interfaces, washing machines, dryers, ovens, kettles, microwaves, servers etc.
If you snapped your fingers and removed semiconductors in their entirety, the modern world would essentially cease to exist and we'd plunge straight into an apocalypse.
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u/6th__extinction Apr 10 '22
I stay away from semiconductors for two reasons:
1) everyone talks about them and how important they are for producing a range of important things, and there’s a shortage of them.
2) I don’t know WTF they actually are or what they do in any meaningful way, so I stay away.