Posted Monday, January 25, 2021 at 10:40pm
Taiwan’s Ministry of Economic Affairs said on Sunday it has received requests through diplomatic channels to help ease a shortage of chips for the auto sector and that it has asked local tech firms to provide “full assistance.”
Automakers around the world are shutting assembly lines because of a global shortage of semiconductors that in some cases has been exacerbated by the former Trump administration’s actions against key Chinese chip factories, according to industry officials.
