It is no exaggeration to say that semiconductors fuel the modern world.
They are not only a key component of almost any electronic device we buy and use, but they also power the factories that produce the electronic devices we buy and use. And now, they’re not really made.
To find a long-term solution, President Joe Biden has just ordered economic and national security experts to look for gaps in the semiconductor supply chain in the United States. They want to see how dependent the US has become on other countries to make semiconductors.
In the short term, however, the directors and analysts of the semiconductor company say that the lack of chips will persist until 2021. Here is how the global shortage of semiconductor chips has become so bad and what is being done to fix the problem.