Posted on 12/31/2021 2:39:23 AM PST by EBH
New Delhi (CNN Business)Two of the world's biggest chipmakers are warning that Covid-19 outbreaks and stringent lockdowns in a major Chinese industrial hub are hampering their operations.
Samsung and Micron said this week that they've had to adjust operations in the northwestern city of Xi'an, which is experiencing one of China's worst community outbreaks of the coronavirus pandemic. Authorities have responded by enacting sweeping measures with an intensity and on a scale rarely seen since Wuhan, the pandemic's original epicenter.
Any slowdown in output from the city risks worsening the global chip shortage, an ongoing crisis that has limited the supply of everything from iPhones to new cars.
Samsung said Wednesday that it had to "temporarily adjust operations" in Xi'an. The South Korean giant added that protecting its workers in the city remains its "top priority," and that it plans to take "all necessary measures, including leveraging our global manufacturing network, to ensure that our customers are not affected."
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You can’t go to work if your door is welded shut.
Betting that Fraud Pedjoe Bidet’s comment on being asked about this was; “I see you’ve brought your daughter...”
Why are we relying on China for production of anything?
Wait till China shuts down plants who produce our medicine.
If China’s Xi decides to go to actual war, do you really think they will keep exports flowing to the United States or our allies?
This from the pedo network...take with a grain of salt! The “hair on 🔥 fire” narrative once again rears its head!
How’s that outsourcing working out there bud.
Causing prices to rise, again.
This is a better played war on their part than any in the past. It’s no coincidence they got the Olympics this year. It starts in a month but teams are already headed there and back home and back again.
almost like a NEW strain escaped the lab or something...
TSMC in Taiwan manufactures the chips for iPhones.
They are foolishly assembled in China.
Our government has sold our sovereignty to communists, both domestic and foreign.
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