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105: Chips Ahoy
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Where have all the chips gone? Scott Willsey joins John to look at how the shifting automotive use of ICs, a drought, a pandemic and poor planning amongst other things has led to an unprecedented global chip shortage with no end in sight.
With Scott Willsey and John Chidgey.
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With Scott Willsey and John Chidgey.
Links of Potential Interest:
- 2020–2021 Global Chip Shortage
- Surging Demand Cause Semiconductor Shortfall
- Global shortage in computer chips reaches crisis point
- Wafer (electronics)
- 22 new 200mm fabs in semiconductor capacity boom
- Foundry model
- Top five chip makers dominate global wafer capacity
- GlobalFoundries to take up-front payments for capacity
- A Computer Chip Shortage Has Hobbled the Auto Industry
- How Tesla pivoted to avoid the global chip shortage that could last years
- Apple and the 10,000 CNC milling machines
- Apple invests another $45 million in Gorilla Glass maker Corning
- Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co’s Water Woes
- Torr
- Etching (microfabrication)
- Thin film
- Photolithography
- Ion implantation
- Doping (semiconductor)
- Wafer (electronics)
- How COVID-19 will affect semiconductor demand in 2021
- The Global Microchip Shortage: What It Means for Your Next Car Purchase
- Experts drill into the motor industry’s chip issues
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Visit manytricks.com/pragmatic and use the Coupon Code (listen to the episode to get the code) for 25% off the total price of your order. Hurry it's only for a limited time!Episode Gold Producers: 'r' and Steven Bridle.
Episode Silver Producers: Mitch Biegler, John Whitlow, Kevin Koch, Shane O'Neill, Oliver Steele, Lesley Law Chan, Hafthor, Jared, Bill and Joel Maher.