Semiconductors: how to get out of the crisis?

The semiconductor shortage is putting the automotive industry at risk.

Here at a Volkswagen factory in Germany.

© Jens Meyer / AP

By: Bruno Faure Follow

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The world economy is starting to fight.

What to do in the face of this unexpected peril that has come from Taiwan and which, by itself, is influencing the global industry: an incomprehensible shortage of semiconductors, those silicon microchips used in cars, airplanes, telephones, consoles? games, or missiles.

What are the underlying reasons for this crisis?

What are its hidden implications?

What long-term consequences?

And especially now, what are the solutions considered by those who suffer the most from the situation? 

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Our guests :

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Mathieu Duchâtel

, responsible for the Asia Program at the Institut Montaigne (platform for reflection, proposals and experiments on public policies). 

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Mathilde Aubry,

Professor of Economics at the Normandy School of Management, responsible for the digital transformation management chair.  

Our reports: 

► Two countries dominate the semiconductor market: South Korea, but above all Taiwan, an archipelago of 24 million inhabitants, located off the coast of China.

The manufacturer TSMC crushes the competition and is now courted by other countries, in an extremely troubled geopolitical context.

Explanations from our correspondent in Taiwan, Adrien Simorre. 

TAIWAN SEMI CONDUCTORS

► The consequences are major in the automotive industry.

Many factories are shut down all over the world.

This is the case with Renault, a French manufacturer.

Employees are worried.

Grégory Picciau, Force Ouvrière unionist in Batilly en Meurthe-et-Moselle (eastern France), joined by Patricia Lecompte. 

RENAULT TRADE UNION CONCERN

► The shortage of semiconductors is being severely felt in the United States, a country which is considering further developing its own production.

Jimmy Goodrich is the vice president of global policy for the Semiconductor Industry Association (SIA).

AMERICAN INDUSTRY DEVELOPMENT

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