Taiwan says chipmakers will prioritize auto chips amid global shortage
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TAIPEI Major Taiwanese chipmakers are willing to prioritize supplies for automakers amid a global shortage of chips for the industry, the island s economics minister said after meeting with company executives.
Automakers around the world are shutting assembly lines due to the shortages, which in some cases have been exacerbated by the former U.S. administration s actions against Chinese chip factories. Chipmakers are willing to follow the government s request and try to support auto chips as much as they can to support production in the U.S., Europe and Japan, Economics Minister Wang Mei-hua told reporters.
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Taiwanese semiconductor chip manufacturers will prioritize the auto industry amid an ongoing global microchip shortage.
Taiwan’s economic minister, Wang Mei-hua, met with executives of semiconductor chip manufacturers this week to discuss strategies for addressing the ongoing shortage, which has forced several major automakers to halt production of certain vehicles. The chip makers said they can prioritize their auto industry partners before others to help get vehicle production back up and running and will reach out to those buyers to see if they delay the production of certain products.
“Chipmakers are willing to follow the government’s request and try to support auto chips as much as they can to support production in the U.S., Europe and Japan,” Wang Mei-hua told
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As automakers around the world face work stoppages due to a lack of chips, Taiwan’s leading chipmakers will “do their best” to “squeeze out more chips” for the global auto industry, Minister of Economic Affairs Wang Mei-hua (王美花) said yesterday after a lunch meeting with company representatives.
Speaking after meeting with representatives of Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TSMC, 台積電), United Microelectronics Corp (UMC, 聯電), Vanguard International Semiconductor Corp (世界先進) and Powerchip Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (力積電), Wang said that chipmakers agreed to help “as much as they can,” but added that it would not be easy.
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TAIPEI Major Taiwanese chipmakers are willing to prioritize supplies for automakers amid a global shortage of chips for the industry, the island s economics minister said after meeting with company executives.
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Automakers around the world are stopping their assembly lines due to the shortages, which in some cases have been exacerbated by the former U.S. administration s actions against Chinese chip factories. Chipmakers are willing to follow the government s request and try to support auto chips as much as they can to support production in the U.S., Europe and Japan, Economics Minister Wang Mei-hua told reporters.