While other industries that use chips are seeing demand slow, allowing semiconductor manufacturers room to catch up, some automotive chips are still in short supply. Rapid growth in demand, technological advances in chip design, and lingering effects from the pandemic...
Once considered a relatively inconsequential process in chip production, semiconductor packaging has begun to attract more attention lately. Amid the recent push to increase the domestic production of silicon chips, the onshoring of packaging has emerged as a major...
While safety stock can mitigate lead time variability and demand uncertainty, it is important to fully understand what degree of protection excess electronic inventory provides and what to do with it when it is no longer needed. With recent fluctuations in the supply...