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Originally Posted by jmg
For now... chips on automobiles are easy to make, and supply will recover sooner than other sectors which need harder to make smaller chips.
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That logic is backwards from what I have heard from my sources with connections to the automotive ECU industry. The easy-to-make chips used in cars are 10-20 year-old technology, and were so easy/cheap to make that no fab wants to keep the tooling around because there is no profit in them. There's way more money to be made by building new fabs to make the latest and greatest tiny chips on thinner wafers. When the auto manufacturers cancelled their chip orders at the start of COVID-geddon, the chip companies tore down the lines for the old non-profitable stuff and started converting them to make the new/profitable stuff.
I would not expect to see the automotive chip crisis resolve itself until the automakers re-design their ECUs to use more modern processors.....