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Today (9th) is the deadline for the United States, which is experiencing a national semiconductor supply shortage, to submit data to semiconductor companies to find out the cause. Samsung and SK Hynix are also known to plan to submit supply chain data excluding sensitive content.
Correspondent Kim Soo-hyung reports from Washington.
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This is a US federal government site that registers materials requested by regulatory agencies.
Of the companies that the U.S. Department of Commerce requested to submit semiconductor supply chain data, so far, 67 companies have submitted data.
Of these, 24 corporate data are published on the site.
The data of TSMC and Micron are also registered on the computer, but the files themselves are kept private due to trade secret exposure.
Samsung Electronics and SK Hynix are also known to plan to submit supply chain data before the deadline at 2pm today.
The Ministry of Commerce plans to find solutions to bottlenecks in the supply chain based on data from companies as the problem spreads to the home appliance and telecommunication fields following the shutdown of automobile factories due to a shortage of semiconductors.
However, since Samsung and SK are focusing on memory semiconductors, which are less in a supply shortage, there is also an analysis that the impact of the Ministry of Commerce's measures will be limited.
President Biden has emphasized semiconductor investment, saying that he will win the competition with China.
[Biden/President of the United States (April 13): This chip is a wafer for batteries and internet networks.
These
are all infrastructure.
We need to build today's infrastructure.]
Minister of Trade, Industry and Energy Moon Seung-wook plans to visit Washington tomorrow to seek cooperation from the United States so that Korean companies will not be harmed by the US' all-round pressure on semiconductor supply.