{"id":121717,"date":"2021-04-18T18:02:19","date_gmt":"2021-04-19T01:02:19","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/the-semiconductor-shortage-is-here-to-stay-but-it-will-affect-chip-companies-differently"},"modified":"2021-04-18T18:02:19","modified_gmt":"2021-04-19T01:02:19","slug":"the-semiconductor-shortage-is-here-to-stay-but-it-will-affect-chip-companies-differently","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2021\/04\/the-semiconductor-shortage-is-here-to-stay-but-it-will-affect-chip-companies-differently","title":{"rendered":"The semiconductor shortage is here to stay, but it will affect chip companies differently"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/the-semiconductor-shortage-is-here-to-stay-but-it-will-affect-chip-companies-differently.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p><em>This article is part of a series tracking the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on major businesses and sectors. For other articles and earlier versions, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.marketwatch.com\/column\/business-in-the-age-of-covid-19\" target=\"_blank\" class=\"\" >go here<\/a>.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A global shortage of semiconductors \u2014 chips that power massive data-centers, modern autos and countless digital devices \u2014 has roiled global manufacturing and is not expected to end soon. It isn\u2019t a blanket problem, however, as different sectors within the chip industry will continue to be affected by the shortage in different ways.<\/p>\n<p>As the industry entered 2020, high demand was expected in the mobile chip area because of the rollout of 5G devices. That path was turned on its head when COVID-19 became a global pandemic, driving millions, if not billions, of people into the safety of their homes to work, go to school, be entertained and to socialize.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This article is part of a series tracking the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic on major businesses and sectors. For other articles and earlier versions, go here. A global shortage of semiconductors \u2014 chips that power massive data-centers, modern autos and countless digital devices \u2014 has roiled global manufacturing and is not expected to end [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":396,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,43,1523,418],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-121717","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-business","category-computing","category-internet"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121717","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/396"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121717"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121717\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121717"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121717"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121717"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}