Although a normal first impression is that the HDD market and perhaps PCs will be impacted, there are significant consequences these floods are about to wreak on the semiconductor market in general.

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Austin has operations by Freescale Semiconductor, which has a long track record with General Motors and ActaCell, started as a spinoff from U-T, which is developing the next generation of lithium-ion batteries for electric vehicles.

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