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This feels like lack of planning. The semiconductor industry was a known entity for many years before this level of integration came to vehicles. They should
by lucidguppy 5y ago
This feels like lack of planning. The semiconductor industry was a known entity for many years before this level of integration came to vehicles. They should have known this would happen.
Ultimately the industry will have to maintain their own production for consistent silicon.
- dboreham 5y agoAs mentioned above there are folks who's entire job is maintaining the spreadsheet for said plan.
- hef19898 5y agoAnd you have to witness the mess without these people, or if they aren't allowed to do their job, in order to believe it. Better even, live the mess, I can assure you it is quite an experience.
- jes 5y ago> This feels like a lack of planning. In any complex undertaking, how can we know when enough planning has been done?
- P24L 5y agoThese “low-tech” fabs are e.g. in Malaysia and they are often closed due to Covid..
- coryrc 5y agoTexas power outages took down one of the few major US plants and a random fire took down another, at the same time as a global pandemic. We're almost at the level of "imports banned from China"-levels of implausibility here. Sometimes shit happens.