- Leo Kelion
- Editor of Tecnología de BBC
Source of the image, Getty Images
Technology companies have announced that they will limit them.
En su burgemeester, sonder om die skyfies van die computadora están en el corazón de todos los digitalos productes que nos rodean. And when the trainees agotan can detain the fabrication.
Although there is an indication of the problem this year, when video game players lurcharon to buy new graphics cards, Apple had to escalate the launch of its iPhone and the latest Xbox and PlayStation consoles could not satisfy the demand.
Luego, just like the antidotes of Navidad, said that the renaissance of the automotive industry was being introduced to what a connoisseur called “the Armageddon of chips”.
The new automobiles on the menu include more than 100 microprocessors and the manufacturers simply do not get any powder.
Since then, a technology company has also announced that it also has limited restrictions.
Samsung has a problem with comparing the memory chips that make its own products and others.
And Qualcomm, which manufactures processors and modems that supply many of the most intelligent telephone and other consumer devices, has the same problem.
The impact of the pandemic
Like many other things that are bad in the world, the coronavirus is part of the culprit.
Blocks impulse the computer sales and other devices for the people to work from home, and also buy new devices to occupy their free time.
While so much, the automotive industry is initially alive a great deal on demand and record their requests.
As a result, chip makers are changing their production lines.
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Samsung is uno de los mayores products of the chips del mundo.
But in the third quarter of 2020, car sales are recovering faster than expected, while demand for consumer electronics continues to rise.
Infrastructure 5G
Sondeverbod, with existing foundations working to full capacity, will build more is not a simple question.
“It’s essential for 18 and 24 months before starting a plant después de comenzar a construirla,” says analyst Richard Windsor.
“And including a time that has been constructed, we have to adjust it to increase production, even if it takes a while”, agree.
“It’s not something that can simply be found and stored”.
The display of the 5G infrastructure also is increasing the demand.
Huawei has a large paycheck to accumulate a reserve of chips before the United States’ commercial restrictions make it impossible to pay more.
On the other hand, the automotive industry has a relatively low margin and tends to have no accumulated sums of money, which it has already set aside.
Recently, TSMC and Samsung, the most important producers of chips, have raised millions of dollars by accelerating a new 5-nanometer chip manufacturing process to increase the ultimate in vanguardia products.
But analysts say that, in a more generalized way, the sector has suffered an insufficient investment.
“The majority of level foundations are recorded in large, large margins and a high index of endurance during the last few years,” said a recent Counterpoint Research report.
“From the perspective of profitability, it is difficult to consider the construction of a new [planta de fabricación] for more beautiful foundations “.
Many of these chip makers are responding to the additional demand increasing their prices.
Consequences
Windsor does not hope the chip collection will recover until July.
Others suggest more time.
“We believe that the semiconductor industry’s semiconductor restrictions as far as oblates as in retrospect will be withdrawn only in particular in the second half of 2021, and that there will be a rigidity in the vanguard (computer science, 5G chips) that will extend until 2022” dice a Bank of America investigation work.
And a chip maker dijo al The Wall Street Journal that the accumulation of pedidos is so great that it takes 40 weeks to complete with any order that a car manufacturer makes.
This is my teen secondary cost costs.
Consultant AlixPartners predicted that the automotive industry would lose US $ 64,000 million while waiting to close or reduce production.
Prohibition of sin, especially as a link between the sector and the general general of the US $ 2 billion and a ventas al año.
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General Motors plans to extend its production in three North American plants.
Monopoly producers
It also has geopolitical implications. United States of America will lead in terms of the design of components. Peru Taiwan and South Korea dominate the chip manufacturing industry.
TM Lombard Rory Green’s economist estimates that Asian nations represent 83% of world processor chip production and 70% of memory chips.
“How the OPEP for the Petroleum, Taiwan and Korea of the Sur is its monopolistic producers of chips”, he wrote, adding that his market share was growing more and more.
It has raised concerns in the United States, giving a group calling for an end to the current crisis “the canary in the carbon mine” for the future summary of summit lines.
And a group of 15 senators urged President Biden’s writing to take part in “incentivizing the semiconductor national production in the future”.
But it must be said that the most affected country is China, which makes more cars than any other nation.
As a consequence, the IHS research firm predicts that 250,000 less vehicles will be produced in the country during the first three months of this year.
Pekín has always believed that the country has the most autosufficiency in halfgeleiers.
Pero Estados Unidos has taken steps to block local businesses that use state-of-the-art technical equipment to hack, arguing that both have joined the Chinese military.
The current crisis will not only affect China’s leaders to redress their efforts. También also exposes the disruptive that will take place in the wake of its ambitions: unification with Taiwan.
Source of the image, Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd.
TSMC, based in Taiwan is the world’s largest semiconductor company.
‘Más caro’
For now, consumers who plan to buy deben tener en cuenta algunas cosas.
The hours of hope for some models of automotive vehicles. And also the result would be difficult to find any devices.
The most important players, like Samsung and Apple, have the purchasing power to ensure priority.
But the most important brands can be affected by disproportionate manners.
“This means that the products can become more careless, or at least do not take precedence over the time as is normally the case,” said Ben Wood, CCS Insight consultant.
“Y abastecimientos serán limitados”, agrega.
“Entones, if there is a device that actually deseas obtener, no pienses en esperar para ver si hay one major offer in one months”.
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