the sole supplier of the quartz required to make the crucibles needed to refine silicon wafers.There are no alternative sources known.

The bit that supports the headline that totally does look click-baity and dramatic.

Mollick provides an excerpt from Conway’s Material World, which discusses the probable “end of computer chip manufacture as we know it,” should something untoward happen at Spruce Pine or in the skies above

Maybe Mollick is click-baity, but the article seems to be quoting directly and not creating the click-bait themselves.