Dell founder predicts semiconductor shortage will ‘probably continue for a few years’
Another expert from a tech giant expects the global chip shortage to continue for quite some time.
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Dell’s founder and CEO, Michael Dell, predicts that the current chip shortage will continue for a few years. He spoke to Germany’s Handelsblatt newspaper to discuss the shortage from his company’s perspective (viaReuters. Dell, the company, has a reported annual order volume of $70 billion worth of semiconductors.
“The shortage will probably continue for a few years,” said Dell. “Even if chip factories are built all over the world it takes time.”
The current semiconductor shortage affects a wide range of industries, including the computing and automotive industries. Dell has a high demand for older and cheaper semiconductors, which are hard to obtain at the moment.
Dell explained, “We are talking, in particular, about components that are in the one-dollar range and are used practically everywhere. But even newer technologies are not easy to come by.”
Dell isn’t the only one who thinks the chip shortage will persist.NVIDIA CFO Colette Kresssaid that the company expects “demand to continue to exceed supply for much of this year.” TSMC warned that the shortage could last even longer into 2022.
Several tech giants and the U.S. government are taking steps to combat the global shortage, though any efforts will take some time to bear fruit. Earlier today, Microsoft, Apple, Google, Amazon, and several other large tech companies announced the formation of theSemiconductors in America Coalition, which aims to secure funding for domestic manufacturing of semiconductors.
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