re: Chip Shortage - What You Haven’t Heard

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The largest chip manufacturer is in Taiwan. Taiwan, Hong Kong and South Korea all make as many or more chips than China.

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There are multiple problems associated with ramping up production to replace all these chips. Think about all the chips made in China that aren't available now. Who owns those chip designs? That's right. China, or, Chinese businesses. These other companies can't make the same designs, as those designs are patented and any company trying to reproduce those will face huge patent infringement suits. So, they have to engineer new designs and then source all the wafers and component parts and pieces and, guess what? Supply chains are ALL fricked up right now. It's not just as easy as add production capacity. That can happen quickly. Sourcing everything and having finished designs that will meet the same fit, form and function at the exact same power requirements as the chips they replace is not as simple as you might think.