Semiconductors

Fueled by U.S. consumer demand for semiconductors, South Korea continues to make huge inroads as China fades.

While President Biden continues to invest in U.S. manufacturing, job opportunities are simply not keeping up with the industry's growth.

Supplyframe CMO Richard Barnett discusses countries moving away from China for manufacturing and why Malaysia is a great alternative.

In another boon for domestic manufacturing, President Biden awarded Samsung $6.4 billion for new semiconductor chip plants in Texas.

The US Government is giving $6.6 billion to the world's largest semiconductor manufacturer to build a fabrication plant in Arizona.

This earthquake is the latest in an ostensible series of events impacting the global supply chain, right on the heels last week’s tragic bridge collapse in Baltimore, which was preceded by the ongoing Red Sea and Panama Canal issues.

Taiwan was struck by a major earthquake on Wednesday, raising concerns about slowdowns in the global tech supply chain.

For the first time in quite a while, Washington is in the chips. Computer semiconductor chips, that is. Congress late last week passed a bipartisan $280 billion package of subsidies and research funding to increase America’s international competitiveness in the high-tech sector. It is designed to make the U.S. less dependent on Taiwan for production of the ubiquitous wee chips that are critical to U.S. competitiveness.

In this semiconductor lead time report, we describe how things in the electronic component supply chain industry are developing along with several interrelated crises cultivating unprecedented disruption.

Here is a comprehensive update on the global electronic component shortage, component lead times, and a forecast of when the parts crunch will end.

Sourcengine uses its robust market intelligence resources to create a thorough lead time report every quarter and features up-to-date availability information on a wide range of electronic components made by a slew of chipmakers including pricing and turnaround time forecasts through March 2022.

Several Japanese chipmakers halt production following an earthquake, Foxconn partially resumes production in Shenzhen, and DRAM prices to rise in Q2 2022.

Leading chipmaking executives and insiders believe the electronic components supply chain will grapple with lead time delays, availability issues, and pricing fluctuations throughout the coming year and into 2023.

The average microchip lead times have risen to a record 22 weeks which is being attributed to the extension of production and delivery dates to the Chinese government's power reduction mandates.

Every quarter, Sourcengine publishes a comprehensive lead time report covering the supply chain electronics industry and has established that the worldwide component bottleneck will not ease up until late 2021 or even into 2022.