Stefan Mileschin

Shelves empty, but unlike Brexit there is a good reason for it

The global semiconductor shortage that has paralyzed automakers for a year shows signs of worsening.

According to the Washington Post, new coronavirus infections halt chip assembly lines in Southeast Asia, forcing more car companies and electronics manufacturers to suspend production.

A wave of delta-variant cases in Malaysia, Vietnam and the Philippines is causing production delays at factories that cut and package semiconductors, creating new bottlenecks on top of those caused by soaring demand for chips, the paper said.

Martin Daum, chief executive of the Daimler AG division that makes trucks and buses, was quoted as saying that the problem as intensifying.

"Until the second quarter we were able to manage the situation quite well at Daimler Truck", Daum said.

"But since summer the semiconductor situation has worsened for us. Our production in Germany and the US was affected, which led to a situation in which we could deliver fewer vehicles to our customers."

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