Germany sent a letter to Taiwan to persuade Taiwanese manufacturers to help ease the shortage in semiconductor chips that has impacted certain OEM production around the globe. The shortage has affected Volkswagen, Ford, Subaru, Toyota, Nissan, newly-created Stellantis, and others. “To reduce dependencies from Asian suppliers and avoid similar problems in the future, Berlin is (also) now planning to increase state support to ramp up production capacities of semiconductors in Germany and Europe,” said Autoblog. (Source: Autoblog) Read the original story…


