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Automotive chip order times remain long around the world, but brokers are focusing on China, which has become ground zero for a crunch that the rest of the industry is gradually moving beyond.
China is the world's largest producer of cars, which means the global shortage of chips, also known as microcontrollers or semiconductors, is hitting the country particularly hard.
Globally, new orders are backed up by an average of about a year, according to a Reuters survey of 100 automotive chips produced by the five leading manufacturers.