Amazon warns against car industry getting special treatment in efforts to fix chip shortage
Amazon has warned against the car industry receiving special treatment to address the chip shortage crisis that has shut factories around the world.
The technology giant told a review into Joe Biden’s plans to provide billions in subsidies for US chip manufacturing that a wide range of products from data centres to satellites were at risk from the shortage.
“Any government incentives and efforts to diversify the semiconductor supply chain should be made across the board, for access by and for the benefit of all users and customers of semiconductor technology,” the company said in its response to a consultation.
“No single sector should be favoured over other sectors, as semiconductor technology underlies a large variety of industries.”
The Biden administration is proposing to spend $50bn (£36bn) in subsidies for chip research and manufacturing, an effort to ease the current shortage of chips and to ease reliance on Asia, where
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