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“Part of the theatre of the ITTC (International Tin and Tantalum Conference) is to never talk about shortages of supply so that the end users will feel there is no issue with designing in tantalum”

a link to an article from this time last year about the world’s number one conflict material

Simon Taylor

Simon Taylor

06 Mar 2014

a link to an article

from this time last year

about the world’s

number one

conflict

material

 

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