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<p>[QUOTE="D.Tibbitt, post: 12203081, member: 114099"]The article doesn't mention anything about a chip shortage.. Just that Ford can't meet production for whatever excuse they come up with...</p><p><br /></p><p> you can't just say to just manufacture chips here in America.. We produce maybe 10% or less of the global supply of semiconductors with the plants here running at near 100% capacity.... The majority comes from overseas in Asia.. Intel is building 4 more plants in America, 2 of them in my home state of Arizona but they are a long long way from being completed... taiwan semiconductor is also building a plant here...but all of this was more a reaction to the shortage in the last couple years vs being proactive and thinking about the future... so by the time they come online it won't really make much of a difference[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="D.Tibbitt, post: 12203081, member: 114099"]The article doesn't mention anything about a chip shortage.. Just that Ford can't meet production for whatever excuse they come up with... you can't just say to just manufacture chips here in America.. We produce maybe 10% or less of the global supply of semiconductors with the plants here running at near 100% capacity.... The majority comes from overseas in Asia.. Intel is building 4 more plants in America, 2 of them in my home state of Arizona but they are a long long way from being completed... taiwan semiconductor is also building a plant here...but all of this was more a reaction to the shortage in the last couple years vs being proactive and thinking about the future... so by the time they come online it won't really make much of a difference[/QUOTE]
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