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Buffer stock appears to be the way of the future for global supply chains. Recently at the Global Smart Vehicle Executive Summit of Seicon Taiwan 2022, Director of Automotive and MCU Business Development at TSMC, Cheng-Ming Lin, made a comment that made the automotive industry take notice: as hard as the auto industry has had…
The benefits of buffer stock are well known across the business landscape and have long been seen as a strategy to secure supply chains. In 2022, however, the use of buffer stock to shore up critical inventory such as electronic components, semiconductors, have gone from being a supply chain luxury to being an absolute necessity.…
Supply Chain Disruption Expected to Continue From the raw materials to the final build, companies across the industrial landscape are seeing forms of disruption, creating a year of unprecedented uncertainty and concern for the future of their supply chains. At the very origins of the supply chain, there have been raw material shortages. Since the…
Die and wafer banking is here to stay. According to Yahoo Finance, the wafer market is projected to grow in value from $11.4 billion in 2022 to $20.6 billion by 2027 — an annual growth rate of 12.5%. The reasons for such growth are easy to see: companies across all major industries who rely on…
Despite recent efforts to curb the rising inflation rates seen in the U.S., little relief has been seen in the U.S. or in supply chains. These efforts included a third consecutive three-quarters percentage point interest rate hike from the Federal Reserve, even though Fed Chairman Jerome H Powell is quoted as saying “no one knows…
As 2022 continues forward, it appears to be increasingly likely the long-brewing political conflict between China and Taiwan is going to soon take on a more concrete form. This has drastic implications for the world beyond these countries’ borders in countless ways, but one of the most concerning effects will be on the global supply…