The drought in chip availability that has hit auto manufacturing, raised electronics costs and stoked supply-chain worries in capitals across the globe has a brand new ache level: a scarcity of chips wanted for the machines that make chips, trade executives say.
The wait time it takes to get equipment for chip-making—one of many world’s most complicated and delicate varieties of producing—has prolonged over latest months. Early within the pandemic it took months from putting an order to receiving the tools. That time-frame has stretched to 2 or three years in some circumstances, in accordance with chip-making and tools executives. Deliveries of beforehand positioned orders are additionally coming in late, executives say.
