Michael UngarCEO of the Industry 4.0 Club

Semiconductor Crisis: Supply Chain NIGHTMARE!

12 Mar 2025 · 1 min

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In this segment, the speakers outline the core factors driving the ongoing semiconductor supply‑chain crisis. They explain that semiconductor foundries are hit by a cascade of shortages: raw materials needed for wafer production are hard to obtain; large‑scale equipment for crystal growth, machining, and other processing steps is delayed or unavailable; and there is a deficit of skilled personnel to operate and maintain this equipment. These intertwined constraints create a snowball effect, amplifying delays throughout the entire production pipeline and worsening the shortage of finished semiconductor goods.

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So the main issues, these are things that we're all familiar with at this point, it's supply chain delay. So this is something that has just continued to have a snowball effect, and it just continues to run downhill. In the case of semiconductors, the foundries that produce the materials that go into the finished goods, they're not able to obtain the raw materials that they need. And they're also unable to get other types of resources that they need. And those could be the large equipment to grow the semiconductor materials into usable forms, machining equipment, or simply the skilled resources that they need.
You mentioned, you know, 2 things, like one is the material. So foundries being able to get the material that they need to then produce and then the delays, right? So if there is that material, it's taking a really long time to get there.