How long has international trade been down for.. a good year and a half? Some period of shipping delays and cancellations are tolerable as local inventories of these essential parts can suffice for a short amount of time. But not forever.
And now china is flexing on taiwan, and japan is being threatened with nukes. A lot of chip fabs in both of those places. That cant help matters.
The parts might have their own part numbers and their own in-house designs, but how different would the actual component loadouts be? Its entirely plausible that a couple of key parts that all depend on are made at only one place in the world.. that flew under the radar entirely until the supply chain took a big hit.
I'm going with Hanlon's razor on this one - 'dont attribute to malice which can adequately be described by stupidity'. At least until there is more info available.
I'm going with Hanlon's razor on this one - 'dont attribute to malice which can adequately be described by stupidity'. At least until there is more info available.
So...
All the car manufacturers in the world suddenly become incompetent morons.
They didn't have any trouble getting the other needed items for their manufacturing because of the virus, just this one.
Even though the car designs use different chips, they all were suddenly unattainable.
Sorry, this is NOT stupidity. That is not credible.
Have you not heard about shortages in other industries? Just in time manufacturing and globalism is one hell of a vulnerability when it comes to security of ones parts sourcing.
Nothing sudden about it by the way, as I said the build up for this one has been a while coming.
So you believe that all the car manufacturers didn't see any shortage coming and they all just dropped the ball?
All of them, even though they use different parts.
How long has international trade been down for.. a good year and a half? Some period of shipping delays and cancellations are tolerable as local inventories of these essential parts can suffice for a short amount of time. But not forever.
And now china is flexing on taiwan, and japan is being threatened with nukes. A lot of chip fabs in both of those places. That cant help matters.
The parts might have their own part numbers and their own in-house designs, but how different would the actual component loadouts be? Its entirely plausible that a couple of key parts that all depend on are made at only one place in the world.. that flew under the radar entirely until the supply chain took a big hit.
I'm going with Hanlon's razor on this one - 'dont attribute to malice which can adequately be described by stupidity'. At least until there is more info available.
So...
All the car manufacturers in the world suddenly become incompetent morons.
They didn't have any trouble getting the other needed items for their manufacturing because of the virus, just this one.
Even though the car designs use different chips, they all were suddenly unattainable.
Sorry, this is NOT stupidity. That is not credible.
Have you not heard about shortages in other industries? Just in time manufacturing and globalism is one hell of a vulnerability when it comes to security of ones parts sourcing.
Nothing sudden about it by the way, as I said the build up for this one has been a while coming.
There are chip fabs all over the world.
And none of the car manufacturers could anticipate it. They all were caught flat-footed?
I don't buy it. I don't know what is going on, but I do not believe it is simple incompetence.
Hanlon's razor is a victim of itself ....