Auto makers accepting more risk, inventory, cost to ensure chip supply
The shortages of computer chips that forced global auto makers to scrap production plans for millions of cars over the past two years are easing – at a new and permanent cost to the car companies.
It is a U-turn for auto makers who had previously relied on suppliers – or their suppliers – to source semiconductors. “In the past two years they call me and behave like my best friend,” he told a laughing crowd of TSMC partners and customers in Silicon Valley recently. One auto maker called to urgently request 25 wafers, said Wei, who is used to fielding orders for 25,000 wafers. “No wonder you cannot get the support.”
SkyWater Technology Inc, a chip manufacturer in Minnesota, is talking to auto makers about putting “skin in the game” by buying equipment or paying for research and development, Chief Executive Thomas Sonderman told Reuters. “But that perception has changed pretty dramatically over the last two years. And that perception has changed as a direct result of us being able to talk to ,” he said. “The paradigm has really, really shifted for us.”
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