Posted on 05/18/2021 8:35:51 PM PDT by blam
Readers have been briefed on the ongoing semiconductor shortage that may last a “couple of years.” The auto industry has grabbed the spotlight as the hardest-hit industry, with some of the world’s biggest manufacturers restricting production.
According to a new report, the worldwide chip shortage is impacting the agriculture industry that may last for a couple of years and has already impacted the price of potato chips.
Hoosier Ag Today reports, “The biggest factor impacting the ability of US farmers to produce the food we need has nothing to do with the weather, the markets, trade, regulations, or disease. The worldwide shortage of computer chips will impact all aspects of agriculture for the next two years and beyond… farm equipment manufacturers have halted shipments to dealers because they don’t have the chips to put in the equipment… not only have combine, planter, tillage, and tractor sales been impacted, but even ATV supplies are limited. Parts, even non-electric parts, are also in short supply because the manufacturers of those parts use the chips in the manufacturing process. As farmers integrate technology into all aspects of the farming process, these highly sophisticated semiconductors have become the backbone of almost every farming operation.”
Rabobank’s Global Economics & Markets desk commented on the Hoosier Ag Today report and cautioned on the “technological wonders of a global economy based on just-in-time supplies of a few key inputs from only a few locations; and then demand surged due a virus that ran rampant through said global economy; and supply chains got snarled for that, and other reasons; and now a lack of silicon chips even impacts on the price of potato chips (in the US) and chips (in the UK).”
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How much?
Can you imagine if we get into to a war of attrition with the ChiComs? "Sorry, but we have to to tool up so could ya'll wait a few years on this war thing"???
The solution is obvious. MAKE CHIPS HERE....
FIXED IT.
There’s clearly going to be a market for transport and other machinery.
Potomac mills, used to be Banks salvage.
It was so large that they had to build a rail line to the site and they set up a gigantic car shredder operation and they started feeding the car shredder ejecta into the rail cars and carted them off, probably to China. Once that happened all the old cars 40s,50s,60,70s... no longer any large viable source of used salvage parts.
I went in there when I was younger and I needed a 1962 Chevy Biscayne rear end with a mechanical Overdrive they sent a guy out to some place in that yard which was acres and acres and in about a half an hour there was a differential sitting on the counter and I think it cost me a hundred bucks or something like that. That place was remarkable.
So the USA cannot make chips. Almost every weapon system is computerized and requires a chip set so......
“I know for automobiles, much of it is due to government mandates - but what about other things?”
People LIKE electronics. Tell them their columbine is self-driving or has a GPS display and they’ll buy it, certainly over the ones that have smelly carburetors, for example.
Patriots and US citizens like electronics that are designed, engineered and made in the USA by US citizens. Fixed it.
GlowBULLism is an abject failure.
Yup! Look at that...we can agree on something! LOL.
Another refugee from Hack-a-Day?
If it means eating vs nothing to eat. The question will be answered.
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So the USA cannot make chips. Almost every weapon system is computerized and requires a chip set so......
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Oh we can make chips.
We can definitely make chips
Used to work a PGA fab factory (Alcoa) as an test engineer in my youth.
Actually wasn’t a huge Taiwan chip maker set to open a fab plant in Arizona? (Before Xiden, of course)
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Ross Perot? Is that you?
“The worldwide shortage of computer chips will impact all aspects of agriculture for the next two years and beyond…”
BS. Sky is not really falling. Head shake.
LM555’s are timer chips.
LM380’s are audio amps.
LM741 is operational amp. (& LM358’s)
I’ve got them all, not in box quantities.
And I can etch printed circuit boards.
My junk box is a room.
I did it as a kid.
Will be moving back to the house at the farm soon.
If/when people get hungry enough they will.
That.too.
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