Since the beginning of 2021, car factories around the world have been forced to periodically stop production – various global reasons, which have a cumulative effect, have led to a serious shortage of microchips in car electronics.
Currently, Onsemi, the largest US microelectronics supplier, has sold out all electric vehicle chips until at least the end of 2023, the Financial Times reports, citing the company’s CEO. The German company Infineon and the international giant Stellantis agree that the end of the crisis is still a long way off.
To make matters worse, electric vehicles, and even conventional self-driving cars, require twice as many chips, and these vehicles are growing in popularity. A new semiconductor factory takes at least two years to build and another year is needed to install and debug the equipment.
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Source: Russian newspaper