{"id":125881,"date":"2022-05-17T12:00:11","date_gmt":"2022-05-17T16:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/valorguardians.com\/blog\/?p=125881"},"modified":"2022-05-17T10:16:27","modified_gmt":"2022-05-17T14:16:27","slug":"it-aint-the-chips","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/?p=125881","title":{"rendered":"It Ain’t The Chips"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/p>\n

Shortages everywhere? Don\u2019t go blaming the truckers: they are having serious problems getting parts for their OTR vehicles, never mind finding any new trucks they can buy. If anything, blame the shortages of things like semiconductor chips, as well as the squabbling going on in Congress over where those parts should come from. Since the majority are made overseas (China, Japan, etc.), this makes it a bit more clear that we are far too dependent on \u201cother\u201d to produce things that we ourselves can manufacture right here at home.<\/p>\n

We aren’t quite down to brass tacks just yet, but we are getting closer.<\/p>\n

https:\/\/www.thetrucker.com\/trucking-news\/business\/backlogs-continue-truck-manufacturers-still-plagued-by-shortages-of-semiconductors-other-parts<\/a><\/p>\n

From the article: Parts shortages are to blame for most of the lag in production. Semiconductors are likely the biggest culprit, but steel, aluminum, plastics, foam and other needed components are also hard to come by. The semiconductor shortage isn\u2019t getting better any time soon.<\/p>\n

According to a Sept. 29 blog post by Kelly Blue Book, the chip shortage will last into 2023. In the blog, Rohm Company CEO Isao Masumoto was quoted as saying, \u201cAll of our production facilities have been running at their full capacity since September last year, but orders from customers are overwhelming. I don\u2019t think we can fulfill all the backlog of orders next year.\u201d<\/p>\n

Rohm, located in Japan, is one of the largest suppliers of semiconductors for the automotive industry.<\/p>\n

Attempts have been made to jump-start an increase in U.S. semiconductor production with an infusion of federal cash. The $52 billion \u201cCHIPS (Creating Helpful Incentives for Producing Semiconductors) for America Act\u201d died without action in the 2020 Congress. <\/em>It was reintroduced in the 2021 Congress and passed the Senate in July, but it remains in limbo<\/strong> as Democrats and Republicans squabble over various funding bills.<\/p>\n

A statement on the Semiconductor Industry Association website in support of such legislation read: \u201cThe share of global semiconductor manufacturing capacity in the U.S. has eroded from 37% in 1990 to 12% today, mostly because other countries\u2019 governments have invested ambitiously in chip manufacturing incentives and the U.S. government has not.\u201d – article<\/p>\n

Read the entire article at the link. It\u2019s worth your time and is enlightening, to say the least. Since most of these items necessary for the trucking industry are made in China, which wants to take over Taiwan (d\u00e9ja vu all over again) because that is one of the sources of these semiconductor chips, it appears that the entire mess is not going to ease off any time soon.<\/p>\n

The simple fact that China’s shipping industry has ships waiting offshore of the USA to unload cargo, which I addressed a while ago, speaks volumes about why demand is not being met by the supply-side people. If supply can’t get the supplies, they can’t supply any demands for any goods of any kind, whether it’s semiconductors ore tires. And the squabbling over it in Congress is an abomination, period. And yeah, I’ll blame Biden for it all because – well, because I can.<\/p>\n

\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Shortages everywhere? Don\u2019t go blaming the truckers: they are having serious problems getting parts for their … It Ain’t The Chips<\/span>Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":653,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[209,213,430,296],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-125881","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-teh-stoopid","category-your-tax-dollars-at-work","category-2020-election","category-china"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125881","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/653"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=125881"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125881\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=125881"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=125881"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.azuse.cloud\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=125881"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}