Officials at Intel and Apple chipmaker TSMC say chips for chipmaking machines are one of the things in short supply amid chip shortages.
According to 9To5Mac, buying new chipmaking machines was never a quick process, given their complexity and fragility, but lead times were measured in months before the pandemic.
While many commentators say they expect chip shortages to ease by the end of this year, the WSJ describes chipmaking companies as having an overly optimistic outlook.
What started as a pandemic-era diversion of demand for supercharges for laptops and other chip-hungry gadgets has turned into a structural problem for the industry.
Now many chip executives say the problem will persist into 2023 and 2024 or even longer.
Some chipmakers are prioritizing customers who produce chipmaking machines.
Microchip CEO Ganesh Murthy technology The maker of microcontroller chips, which process data in all kinds of electronic devices, including chip-making equipment, said his company is now treating chip-equipment suppliers as priority customers, not the way it does. Deals with medical-device manufacturers. Beginning of covid pandemic.
Intel and Apple chip maker TSMC are among those calling for more widespread adoption of this approach.
A recent industry white paper argued the benefits of such a “multiplier effect”. A sophisticated test device would require 80 specialist chips, which can be reprogrammed after being produced, the analysis said, but then assists in making 320,000 of those same chips each year.
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