Semiconductors: China’s automotive • Table.Briefings

A trade war with the USA, competition from electronics companies, a knowledge gap, the goal of climate neutrality – and the Covid crisis hovering over everything. The semiconductor shortage cannot be quickly resolved for China’s automotive industry. Shanghai is trying anyway – with generous subsidies.

Economic disaster warnings, on the one hand, euphoric plans for the future on the other: China’s massive semiconductor manufacturing problems can nowhere be observed in such a compressed form as in Shanghai. This is where China’s largest chip manufacturer (Semiconductor Manufacturing International Corp./SMIC) and Tesla, the world’s largest EV company, manufacture their products.

Semiconductors: China’s automotive sector faces a standstill

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