Lockdown boom: PlayStations beat car giants in pandemic chip crisis
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By Jack Ewing and Don Clark
January 14, 2021 10.53am
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Carmakers braced for turmoil when the pandemic hit. They expected supply chain disruptions and plummeting sales. But they never figured that a year later one of their biggest problems would be PlayStations.
Strong demand for gaming systems, personal computers and other electronics by a world stuck indoors has sucked up supplies of semiconductors, forcing carmakers around the world to scramble for the chips that have become as essential to mobility as petrol or steel.