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...
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 ....