Chennai: Is the automotive industrial chip crisis that is exacerbated by the fact that vehicle makers and parts of their parts use lower generation legacy chip modes that are even lower in the chip maker priority list globally? According to people in the automotive industry, it is one reason why the best-selling cars and SUVs are older and even two wheels face a lack of supply that paralyzes semiconductor chips.
“More than 30% of the chips used in India are older generations and because the automotive industry decreases a sequence of peck when it comes to consumption of chips, the chip industry has not focused on this older generation chip.” OEM automatically, he added, hasn’t moved from “Heritage to other modes, especially in some older best-selling models.
The new launch uses a new generation chip where supply constraints will slowly move out.
But the problem will survive with older models,” said Hemal Thakkar, Director, Risil Research.
Car authome makers also feel the inheritance pin in this matter.
“The generation of chips used by the automotive industry is five years behind smart phones and consumer resilience.
Therefore in inventory inventory, even lower under priority order,” said Vikram Mohan, MD, Pricol.
Pricol, he added, is handling this problem with “onboarding new chips and get OEM to make homologous,” because of the impact of a minimum cost – $ 2- $ 3 per vehicle.
“The consumer electronics industry in India also faces something similar to older generation products that use Legacy mode chips.” In India, AC does not use too many chips and with the supply chain affected, we now need to order nine months to one year Previously, “said Gurmeet Singh, Cmd, Hitachi-Hitachi AC.
The worse, lacking chip, which has so far been very acute in passenger vehicles, is not resolved in a hurry and now shed to two wheels too.” The current crisis will be It takes up to June to be sorted, “said Thakkar.
In a two-wheeled vehicle, which uses a little chips than PVS, there is a” blood bath “said Mohan.” There is a delivery time of 54-58 weeks, and we sell 30% lower than Usually we do this segment.
“Normalcy, he added, it was impossible before September this year.
Car Parts makers embed chips in their sub-assemblies such as light clusters or Dashboard.
“There is a $ 2 chip in a light cluster or dashboard, but if it’s not available, the vehicle cannot be made,” said Mohan.
Even the majors of global spare parts with special chip sources have been exposed to their Indian supply.
“Bosch imports anticipated affected causes reduced shipping capabilities to OEM India.
This is a structural challenge in terms of overall capacity in semiconductors and it will be a medium-term challenge to length,” said Sandeep N, executive director and head of sales mobility solutions, Bosch.