Automotive chip supply remains tight
Despite a rapid slowdown in mass-market chip demand, automotive chip demand remains robust with suppliers vying for more available fab capacity in the fourth quarter of 2022, according to industry sources.
The supply of industrial MCUs and other ICs remains relatively tight, also prompting related chip suppliers to vie for more available fab capacities during the fourth quarter, according to the sources. With industrial ICs requiring a shorter period of time for validation than automotive chips, industrial chip orders may quickly fill foundries' capacity gap left by their PC and other CE chip customers.
