Published: May 11th, 2021,
Last updated: October 17th, 2022
Modern cars don’t work without chips. But the small silicon components are currently in short supply for various reasons. That makes managers in both Germany and China nervous. Planners in Beijing are therefore forging a Chinese semiconductor alliance of around 70 companies. They are to cover the entire chip supply chain and thus produce around 70 percent of the semiconductors for their own market by 2025, as Christiane Kuehl reports. Automotive expert Ferdinand Dudenhoeffer expects China to become the global market leader in as little as five years.