Industry players in China’s auto chip sector on Thursday called for the establishment of a domestic testing and certification platform for car chips as part of the effort to create more helpful alternative for domestic industries in order cut reliance on foreign supply and help ease the tightened chip supplies.
(Jan 19): China’s automotive-chip shortage could persist for as long as a decade, but it has little to do with the current supply glitches snarling production, according to the official who oversees the nation’s key new energy vehicle technology development platform.
Short-term factors like mistakes in ordering due to incorrect forecasts and factory disruptions because of Covid-19 will resolve naturally, Yuan Chengyin, general manager of the National New Energy Vehicle Technology Innovation Center, said. Rather, China’s rising demand for electric cars, its lack of domestic technical knowhow and sustained geopolitical tensions will emerge as much more serious issues.
Digital components to play a more important role in overall automotive production in future
Chinese companies should get prepared for the rise in chip demand as cars become smarter, said analysts, after some carmakers experience pandemic-caused chip shortages. It (the shortage of chips for car electronics) is a historical problem, as China relied on imported chips from Europe, the United States, Malaysia, Japan and South Korea, said Yale Zhang, managing director of Shanghai-based consultancy firm Automotive Foresight.
However, the lockdown due to the outbreak of the novel coronavirus interrupted chip production and the transnational transportation to some extent, which cut the supply of chips to the Chinese market.
Chips a big hurdle for industry to overcome By Zhang Dandan | China Daily | Updated: 2020-12-14 09:09 Share CLOSE A staff member works on producing auto chips at a plant of a chip maker based in Chizhou, East China s Anhui province. [Photo by sheng Wenpeng/for China Daily]
Digital components to play a more important role in overall automotive production in future
Chinese companies should get prepared for the rise in chip demand as cars become smarter, said analysts, after some carmakers experience pandemic-caused chip shortages. It (the shortage of chips for car electronics) is a historical problem, as China relied on imported chips from Europe, the United States, Malaysia, Japan and South Korea, said Yale Zhang, managing director of Shanghai-based consultancy firm Automotive Foresight.
Chinese auto makers seek way out of chip shortage (Xinhua) 15:00, December 12, 2020 BEIJING, Dec. 11 (Xinhua) With the shortage of automobile chips expected to linger, some Chinese auto makers need to brace for a short-term disruption to production next year, according to a local industry association. A rise in chip prices is also likely, resulting from an increase in advance purchasing by companies along the industry chain and the difficulties of increasing production capacity in the short run, said Li Shaohua, an official with the China Association of Automobile Manufacturers (CAAM), in a recent interview with Auto Review magazine. To navigate such a bottleneck, Chinese auto companies and chip makers need joint efforts in technological innovation and upgrading to stabilize production and bolster supply chains.