Global diode shortage goes on
 

Blame the car manufacturers

The world is being gripped by a diode shortage, and it has been that way since 2017, and the drought is likely to last until the second quarter.

DigiTimes has been chatting with Keh-shew Lu, president, and CEO of Diodes, a US-based supplier of discrete power semiconductor devices who is blaming the IoT and car manufacturers who want more intelligent cars.

Lu said that Demand used to be coming mainly from PCs 20-30 years ago and from mobile phones 5-10 years ago. But now the rapid growth of automotive electronics and the trend of new energy vehicles replacing gas-fueled ones will linger for at least ten years.

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