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A new survey conducted last month by Automotive
News about the global chip shortage finds that almost everyone in the
auto industry thinks it's a big problem.
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Today,
according to the survey, 53 percent of respondents said they source their chips
from outside the U.S., and 55 percent are looking for alternative chip sources
outside the country.
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Changes
are happening, of course, from temporary production pauses and a shift to
models that are either in high demand or require fewer chips.
The auto industry is
fully aware just how bad the current chip shortage is. Anecdotally, this has
been clear for a while. Ford CEO Jim Farley, for example, recently said that
the chip shortage is "perhaps the greatest supply shock" he's ever
seen. Automotive News used that quote in a new survey of automakers and suppliers called Examining
the Global Chip Shortage, which gives us plenty of survey data to back up
the feeling that this is a big, big deal.
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