Beijing Special News丨Mistart of Industry and Information Technology responds to the problem of lack of "core" in automobiles The supply of chips will remain in a state of tension in the future

Poster news reporter Liu Lu reported from Beijing

On January 20, the State Council New Office held a press conference. In response to the shortage of chips produced by automobiles, Luo Junjie, director of the Operation Monitoring and Coordination Bureau of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, responded that he will strengthen communication and cooperation with relevant countries and regions, encourage backbone enterprises at home and abroad to increase investment efforts, and promote the improvement of the supply capacity of the entire industrial chain of chips.

Luo Junjie introduced that last year, the global integrated circuit manufacturing capacity continued to be tight, and all walks of life were facing the problem of "lack of cores", which had a greater impact on the development performance of the global industry. Among them, the automobile industry in particular has been hit the hardest, and many domestic car companies have therefore reduced production or short-term production stoppages.

According to the understanding and analysis of the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology, the main reason is that, on the one hand, with the continuous improvement of the degree of social intelligence, the demand for chips as the most critical component of smart devices continues to grow. On the other hand, the spread of the global epidemic and the unreasonable sanctions and suppression of foreign enterprises by some individual countries have caused a serious impact on the global semiconductor supply chain.

Luo Junjie said that the superposition of a variety of factors has also objectively caused the emergence of the problem of "lack of core". With the gradual play of the market regulation mechanism, as well as the joint efforts of governments at all levels, automobile companies, and chip companies, the problem of chip "lack of core" in the automotive field is gradually alleviating. However, we must also see that the stability of the global integrated circuit supply chain is still facing severe challenges, and the supply of such chips will remain in a state of tension for a long time to come.