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AUSTIN — Industry leaders went before Texas lawmakers Wednesday to testify on how the state can better recruit semiconductor companies as a key incentive is set to end.
Semiconductor manufacturers are stockpiling materials and seeking out new suppliers to minimise disruptions.
The supply chain of Taiwan’s small and medium-sized semiconductor chipmakers could be interrupted by an escalation in tensions between Russia and Ukraine, two key suppliers of raw materials, an analyst said on Sunday. Ray Yang (楊瑞臨), a supervisor at the Industrial Technology Research Institute’s (工業技術研究院) Industrial Economics and Knowledge Center, said that the tensions might lead to a reduction of critical raw materials exported from Russia and Ukraine for chip manufacturing. Materials possibly affected include palladium, neon and C4F6, having been mentioned earlier th...
Access to neon and palladium may be impacted.
White House has issued a warning to the chip industry of possible retaliation by Russia to US export curbs, which could further exasperate a global chip shortage.