Chip makers have a message for car makers: Your turn to pay

[1srelluc]

Chip makers have a message for car makers: Your turn to pay

Aug 3 (Reuters) - The shortages of computer chips that forced global automakers to scrap production plans for millions of cars over the past two years are easing - at a new and permanent cost to the car companies.

What had been “war room operations” to manage chip shortages are becoming embedded features of vehicle development, say executives in both industries. That has shifted the risks and some of the costs to automakers.


Meh, maybe Henry Ford was onto something when he made sure that everything that went into building one of his cars could be made by one of his own companies?

If you're relying on outside suppliers, your working at their pace (and cost) no matter how big you are.

 

[Hang on Sloopy]

Chip makers have a message for car makers: Your turn to pay

Aug 3 (Reuters) - The shortages of computer chips that forced global automakers to scrap production plans for millions of cars over the past two years are easing - at a new and permanent cost to the car companies.

What had been “war room operations” to manage chip shortages are becoming embedded features of vehicle development, say executives in both industries. That has shifted the risks and some of the costs to automakers.


Meh, maybe Henry Ford was onto something when he made sure that everything that went into building one of his cars could be made by one of his own companies?

If you're relying on outside suppliers, your working at their pace (and cost) no matter how big you are.

Keep your supply lines close by

 

[pknopp]

and others are accepting longer order commitments and higher inventories.

A push back on "made to order". I kinda wish I wasn't retired so I could throw this in the face of those who argued it.

 

[Mr Natural]

I don’t suppose there’s a way we could make our own chips here in this country is there.

 

[Dekster]

I don’t suppose there’s a way we could make our own chips here in this country is there.

Intel does, but that is about it. Too expensive. Just the high-tech factory will run you $20B

 

[1srelluc]

I don’t suppose there’s a way we could make our own chips here in this country is there.

Not without a lot of pork attached to the legislation.

The Chips Act has a carbon dioxide removal Easter egg.​

The bill authorizes $1 billion in funding for the Department of Energy’s CDR research, which would more than double the existing budget.

Buried in the CHIPS Act is the potential for more carbon dioxide removal funding​