The world is witnessing an unprecedented semiconductor shortage. Companies dabbling with semiconductors are in a highly specialized business. Intel spent close to 8.5 billion US dollars in building a fabricator that could produce its flagship E5 chips. It's almost next to impossible to achieve this kind of scale.
Car companies are halting production because their vendors can't supply electronic components. Laptops are struggling to meet demand because they don’t have computer chips. Mobile phone companies are having to pay through the roof to source critical parts. And it’s all happening because the world is witnessing an unprecedented semiconductor shortage. So in today’s episode, we talk about this and more.