For several years now, the semiconductor chip sector is seen to be facing quite significant problems where various industries require components from companies such as TSMC, SK Hynix, Samsung, Micron and so on.
The automotive industry in particular is seen to be increasingly using these chips for their latest cars, whether for inforia systems, car reversing scan systems, automatic scans and so on.
The biggest issue for the automotive industry is that they are arguably among the most affected by the decline in component supply because they typically source from their own suppliers, and rarely work with chipmakers.
In fact, when automotive companies tried to get direct supply from these processing chip companies, they were rejected outright because of ridiculous requests like asking for 25-30 semiconductor wafers when companies like Apple, AMD and Intel typically requests 25,000 to 30,000 wafers for each order.
Although the semiconductor chip supply issue appears to have subsided, automotive companies such as Stellantis expect that this issue will persist for their industry until the end of 2023.
To overcome this problem, a number of automotive companies, especially those who are really serious about developing their vehicle technology have started to cooperate with these semiconductor chip developers, placing orders for chips developed by the automotive companies themselves.
This is to ensure that these semiconductor chip companies get orders for large-scale supply of chips, and these automotive companies can also get specially developed components with the required specifications and functions.
Automotive companies have also reportedly begun developing their own semiconductor chip R&D divisions recently to facilitate the process.
