The crisis of the automotive industry will last until 2023 – such a term is called one of the leaders of the industry. The head of Volkswagen Herbert Diss shared with Bloomberg that in the near future global shortage of microchips will continue, as well as problems with car supplies.
“Probably, we will remain in shortage of the coming months or even years, because semiconductors use very large demand,” the general director of Volkswagen predicted. He was supported by the head of Daimler (Mercedes-Benz Head Company) Ola Callenius. On the first after a pandemic of the Motor Show in Munich, he warned that the shortage of the chip could last until 2023. A similar assumption in August expressed ROHM CO – a microchip supplier for Toyota.
Volkswagen and Mercedes-Benz suffered in 2021 from closing factories in Malaysia. Due to the flashes of Coronavirus, the Key Key Suppliers for AutoGygigants – Infineon Technologies AG, NXP Semiconductors NV and Stmicroelectronics NV.
Volkswagen’s purchases Murat Axel stated that manufacturers of chips for cars will need to increase power for ten percent to exit the crisis. Diss hopes that the enterprise in Malaysia will be able to resume in September, and until the end of 2021 it will be possible to restore production volumes.
In mid-July, the Taiwanese provider of semiconductors Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company (TSMC) predicted the automotive industry a quick output from the crisis. The company seriously increased capacity – in the first half of 2021 she released more than 30 percent more semiconductors than in the previous six months. In addition, TSMC plans to invest in new plants and open production outside Taiwan.