On February 24, according to CCTV, the SEG Electronics Market in Shanghai's Huangpu District, the largest semiconductor trading market in Shanghai, has attracted much attention since the shortage of automotive chips.
The report said that a core chip of the body electronic stability system produced by STMicroelectronics, after a year ago, the original price of this chip was only about 20 yuan, the price rose sharply. According to the market merchants, it has now been speculated to 2800 yuan, and does not include tax. The price of most other automotive chips is also rising, and the increase is several times smaller.
More serious than soaring prices are the absence of chips. In the market found that many shops are not in stock, many shop owners frankly, now the inventory of chips less than a hundred, downstream companies want to purchase a large number of spot is basically impossible, have to try their luck.
Some merchants said that last year's order cycle has reached about 60 weeks, more than a year, and now some goods are scheduled to go down until December 2023, and it is uncertain whether they can be obtained.
Since last year, affected by the epidemic, the production capacity of chip factories in Southeast Asia and other places has fallen sharply, and the supply of automotive chips has exceeded demand. In addition, the hoarding of chip dealers is also an important reason for the soaring price of automotive chips.