Global semiconductor shortage spurs run on vintage chipmaking tools By Stephen Nellis and Hyunjoo Jin
FILE PHOTO: A 2021 Ford F-150 pickup truck at the Rouge Complex in Dearborn, Michigan
(Reuters) – Minnesota-based Polar Semiconductor makes chips for automakers and is booked beyond capacity. But expanding production lines to help solve a chip shortage that is shutting down car factories around the world is not feasible – in part due to the scarcity of older-style chipmaking machinery.
Chip factories like Polar use these tools to make chips on 200-millimeter silicon wafers, which were state-of-the-art two decades ago. Now, advanced chips are made using much larger wafers, but there is still a lot of demand for simpler, older chips.
Global semiconductor shortage spurs run on vintage chipmaking tools
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How car makers collided with a global chip shortage
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. Updated: 13 Feb 2021, 01:49 PM IST The Wall Street Journal
Auto demand rebounded from a coronavirus slowdown for Ford, GM, VW and others, but the industry misjudged supply lines of semiconductors that control engines, airbags, touchscreens
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Executives at auto makers like Volkswagen AG and General Motors Co. were upbeat about the industry’s recovery in early fall. Demand was rebounding from pandemic lows, and their factories were humming again.
Then came the warnings. Like the one in a Nov. 12 Skype call between VW’s logistics head and officials at car-parts supplier Continental AG. The supplier said it wouldn’t deliver a range of core components VW needed because of a global semiconductor shortage, said people familiar with the call.
O mundo está ficando sem chips (e não, não estão colocando em vacinas)
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