[14:04 Tue,15.March 2022 by blip] |
After two years of pandemic with supply bottlenecks and component shortages, the following news makes one prick up one&s ears: At Foxconn, the major electronics supplier to Apple, among others, production in Shenzhen has been at a standstill since yesterday.
Foxconn says it is trying to activate production capacity in other cities to somewhat offset the outage. Of course, many other manufacturing companies are also affected by the lockdown, such as Unimicron, Taiwan&s largest semiconductor board manufacturer and a major supplier to Apple, Intel and Nvidia. However, its Shenzhen subsidiary is said to  according to the Nikkei account for less than 3% of the company&s sales after all, and is not involved in the production of Ajinomoto Build Film (ABF) substrate, so the production stoppage is not expected to exacerbate the global shortage of ABF substrates, which is needed in CPU manufacturing, among other things. Shanghai is also already seeing initial restrictions in the form of halted traffic and PCR test pens; the major Chinese chipmaker SMIC, among others, is headquartered there. It remains to be seen how all this will affect the global production and availability of electronic components and subsequently finished goods; however, it is to be feared that the current situation will deteriorate further.  Apple iPhone 13 - is manufactured by Foxconn in Shenzhen (and elsewhere)  more infos at bei www.theverge.comdeutsche Version dieser Seite: Lockdown ua. bei Foxconn in Shenzhen läßt weitere Technikengpässe befürchten |
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