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Headings: Shortage of Microchips and its Impact on the Auto Industry
Monday, February 15, 2021
Shortage of Microchips and its Impact on the Auto Industry
After unprecedented zero sales, plant shutdown; the global auto industry is now facing a microchip shortage, also spawned out by the COVID pandemic.
Taiwan attempts to be the savior
Microchip and its importance
Why there is a microchip shortage?
Microchip shortage case study: Japan auto industry
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Content: In a process called doping, small amounts of impurities are added to these pure elements, causing large changes in the conductivity of the material. Developments in semiconductor technology during the past 50 years have made electronic devices smaller, faster, and more reliable. Think for a minute of all the encounters you have with electronic devices in the past few hours. How many have you seen or used in the last 24 hours? Each has important components that have been manufactured with electronic materials. A single semiconductor chip has as many transistors as all of the stones in the Great Pyramid in Giza, and today there are more than 100 billion integrated circuits in daily use around the world—that’s equal to the number of stars in our corner of the Milky Way galaxy. Microchips are truly a modern marvel, a feat of human ingenuity and engineering unmatched by any other industry. That pretty much sums up why the impact of semiconductor or microchip shortage is so humongous. Now, let’s get on to the next part. Why there is a microchip shortage?