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How the global IC shortage affects power supplies and how we can avoid it
Components Bureau discusses how it can help you avoid the on-going IC supply chain catastrophe and its causes
he world’s manufacturing sector has largely ground to a halt due to the on- going disruptions to global supply chains. International travel restrictions and seismic shifts in demand and supply due to the Coronavirus pandemic has left dents in our highly globalised distribution networks. In many markets, this has led to dramatic reductions in supply.
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process, is the semiconductor or integrated circuit (IC). Global shortages in ICs have decimated the supply chains of many key industries, with the poster-boy of this semiconductor crisis being the automotive industry. Industry analysts believe that the shortages will affect automotive production for at least two years.
However, the semiconductor shortage stretches far beyond the automotive and
consumer electronic industries and has leaked into the industrial power supply market. This could have huge ramifications for your system design lead times. It’s extremely easy to blame the IC shortage on Covid and yes, the pandemic has created the “perfect storm” to generate these huge supply chain difficulties. However, without the underlying vulnerabilities in the
manufacturing process, the strong effects of
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