Stefan Mileschin

Worst I have ever seen

Arm CEO Simon Segars told the assembled throngs at the Web Summit in Lisbon that the chip-supply crisis was the worst he'd ever seen.

He said that that most important thing to do to get out of the woods in this situation and minimise similar ones in the future.

Doing that involves improving collaboration between ecosystem players.

"We need better collaboration across all players in the supply chain. So, make sure we understand the bottlenecks and build resilience into this supply chain in a steady state that works okay. But when you get an event, and the pandemic was a Black Swan event, like no other, it froze things off the hillside, and it's tough to recover."

Segars is optimistic that current and future investments would ease the supply chain in the short term, but he is also cautious about not creating huge expectations.

"About $2 billion a week is going to be spent for the next couple of years to add capacity and build new facilities. And that's going to add about half of the additional capacity over the next five years."

https://fudzilla.com/news/53835-arm-...ut-chip-supply