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Amazon warns against car industry getting special treatment in efforts to fix chip shortage

By Betty C. Morrow 2 weeks ago

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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‘Like fire-fighting’: China carmakers struggle with chip shortage | Automotive Industry News

By Betty C. Morrow 3 weeks ago

Automakers around the world have had to adjust assembly lines due to chip shortages caused by high demand for cars.

Car industry executives are being rattled by a global shortage of semiconductors which is hitting production in China, after hoping the world’s biggest car market could spearhead global recovery in the sector.

Automakers around the world have had to adjust assembly lines due to the shortages, caused by manufacturing delays that some semiconductor makers blame on a faster-than-expected recovery from the coronavirus pandemic.

Volkswagen AG, China’s biggest foreign automaker which wants to sell more than four million vehicles in the country, said the effect of the shortage remains unabated in the second quarter this year.

Stephan Woellenstein, Volkswagen’s China chief, told reporters on Sunday it was hard to gauge how much production Volkswagen might lose week-to-week or even month-to-month because of the chip shortage.

“It’s really like fire-fighting … In

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Cerence to Join NVIDIA, Fellow Industry Leaders to Discuss Edge AI Computing in Automotive at NVIDIA GTC 2021

By Betty C. Morrow 1 month ago 
Cerence to Join NVIDIA, Fellow Industry Leaders to Discuss Edge AI Computing
in Automotive at NVIDIA GTC 2021

Cerence execs to present at global voice and automotive industry events
through April and May

BURLINGTON, Mass., April 07, 2021 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Cerence Inc. (NASDAQ:
CRNC), AI for a world in motion, today announced that Cerence VP of Product
Christophe Couvreur will join leaders from NVIDIA, VMWare, and Akridata to
explore edge computing for AI and machine learning workloads in automotive at
NVIDIA GTC 21, available on demand on April 12, 2021 at 10:00 am PT.

Couvreur will join Dean Harris, Automotive Business Development, NVIDIA;
Manish Harsh, Developer Relations, Autonomous Vehicles, NVIDIA; Alexandra
Baleta, Manufacturing and Automotive Industry Director, VMWare; and Sunil
Samel, VP, Products, Akridata on this exciting panel. Together, these industry
experts will discuss near-edge compute infrastructure for latency-sensitive
apps, scale, and cost optimization.

To learn more about NVIDIA
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Car industry could take six months to recover from chip shortage

By Betty C. Morrow 1 month ago

Carmakers have warned that the global microchip shortage that has brought automotive factories to a halt could continue to affect production for another six months as they called on the US government to step in.

The Alliance for Auto Innovation, an industry group that represents American car manufacturers, told the White House in a filing that the ongoing shortage could mean 1.3m fewer cars being made in the US than last year.

That would amount to around 10pc of the 12.9m vehicles produced in North America last year, according to industry figures.

A global shortage of chips that feature in cars’ entertainment units and power supplies, often only costing a few dollars, has shut down or slowed production lines around the world. Vehicle manufacturers cancelled orders in the early months of the pandemic last year, and when demand unexpectedly rebounded, struggled to secure enough supply as chipmakers had turned to

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