General Motors Brings Battery Material Production to US, Signalling Increased Vertical Integration

By Logan Wamsley

A global semiconductor shortage has done little to deter automakers like General Motors from embracing an electric future. Despite the automotive industry’s ongoing issues acquiring sufficient quantities of electronic components and semiconductors to meet vehicle production schedules, General Motors (GM) has made several moves in recent months to prepare for an organizational-wide transition to electric…

Rising Prices for Electronic Components: The Full Story

By Logan Wamsley

The current component shortage has had a profound effect in all aspects of supply chains. Suppliers’ inability to increase capacity to meet demand in the automotive and IoT markets, for example, has extended lead times to unmanageable levels. In some cases, passives for once commoditized components such as MLCCs and resistors have been reported to…