According to Intel, the situation in the field of chips will not improve even in 2022 -apkrig
If you’ve been eager to hope that the shortage of chips will subside next year, we don’t have much good news for you. While AMD President Lisa Su is optimistic that 2022 will be a milestone that players are far from waiting for, Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger sees it differently a few months later. In an interview with the Nikkei agency, he said that according to current forecasts, the world should prepare for the next one skinny “The overall shortage of semiconductor chips is quite significant, COVID has disrupted supply chains and demand has literally exploded by 20 percent year on year,” Gelsinger said of the main reasons why he did not see the situation optimistically.
Intel is warning the chip shortage will last until 2023. I wouldn’t be surprised if it’s well into 2023 before things get back to normal https://t.co/mm0wN0YxHA
— Tom Warren (@tomwarren) October 21, 2021
According to Gelsinger, the whole market has entered a very dangerous spiral, which is being spun by the above-mentioned demand. Manufacturers simply don’t disappear, they need chips, and because they don’t get them, there’s a huge gap that’s growing. “Capacity building to address this gaps and the size of the demand takes time. Intel is already building large-scale new plants to help address the shortage, ”said the company’s CEO. New factories were talked about in the summer, they should grow first in Arizona and New Mexico, then other US and European countries will come to the fore. Gelsinger said we should know more soon, but Intel continues to rely on suppliers and manufacturers in Asia, including China and Malaysia.
The latter is set to play an important role in the near future, publicly demonstrating its interest in not interrupting the global supply chain. Support was made by International Trade and Industry Minister Mohamed Azmin Ali, who assured Gelsinger that there would be no more closures in Malaysia, and that if the coronavirus pandemic situation worsened, the country would do its utmost to avoid a semiconductor situation. “We realize how important the whole chain is to the world,” Ali said, of course, also taking into account his own interest, resp. of interest to Malaysia. It has previously identified the electrical and electronics industries as key to the country’s sustainable growth and, in the face of coronavirus instability, will do its utmost to sustain growth. This is also underlined by investments in the semiconductor chips sector, which in the first six months of 2021 amounted to 250 billion crowns, which is a huge jump compared to less than 3 billion invested in the same period in 2020.
How it affects the availability of game consoles, graphics cards, cars and basically any smarter electronics, but at the moment it is not entirely clear. On the other hand, there is another possible problem, and that is an oversized capacity, which could lead to massive redundancies and devaluation of previous investments in new plants once the crisis is resolved. However, Sony, Intel or TSMC suggested during the year that factory building is preceded by in-depth analysis and bad scenarios may not eventually occur. It is only necessary to endure the crisis and return the world to its pre-pandemic state.
