TAIPEI — A Canadian member of Parliament who represents an space within the nation’s predominant auto producing province stated on Friday he had requested Taiwan to “please send us more chips” to assist resolve an ongoing scarcity that continues to snarl some manufacturing strains.
The automotive trade has been badly affected by world tightness in semiconductor provides, which have in some circumstances compelled firms to droop manufacturing strains.
Chris Lewis, a member of parliament from Ontario which is house to auto factories owned by the Detroit Three, Toyota and Honda, advised reporters on a go to to Taiwan as a part of a Canadian parliamentary delegation that the shortage of chips continued to chew.
“We’ve got parking lots full of cars, finished product cars, that sit in the parking lot, can’t be sold, because we don’t have semiconductors,” he stated.
The province is near U.S. automakers in Michigan and Ohio, with a carefully related provide chain.
Lewis stated they’d met senior executives at Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co. Ltd. (TSMC), the world’s largest contract chipmaker, whereas on their journey, together with different firms, to ask them to “put Canada at the top of the list”.
“I think every single meeting, including the upper levels of government, I brought up there are very major shortages of chips. It was a very broad conversation and every time we said ‘please send us more chips’.”
Lewis stated they acquired reassurances that Taiwan is working “very diligently” to construct extra chips, however he added that in the end what can be greatest can be chip manufacturing in Canada or the United States.
“The conversation needs to be larger than that. It needs to be so how do we use their technology, use their expertise, get them over, train them and start building them in North America, build them in Canada, build them in the United States.”
TSMC didn’t instantly reply to a request for remark.
The firm is setting up a US$12 billion plant within the U.S. state of Arizona.
Source: canada.autonews.com