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    Home»Sections»Consumer electronics»At last! Global manufacturers see chip shortage easing

    At last! Global manufacturers see chip shortage easing

    Consumer electronics By Agency Staff21 July 2022
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    Hyundai Motor Co, factory robot builder ABB and Swedish fridge maker Electrolux see the semiconductor chip shortage easing, executives said on Thursday, in a boost for manufacturers after a long struggle for components.

    An increased supply of chips will reduce one burden facing an industry that is also battling raw material price inflation, a tight energy market and rising interest rates that are throwing a dampener on consumer demand.

    Hyundai turned in its best quarterly profit in eight years on Thursday as a weak won lifted the value of its earnings abroad and demand stayed strong for the South Korean car maker’s high-margin SUVs.

    The good thing to know, it is easing up. Commitments from our suppliers are significantly better

    The motoring giant was also boosted by the easing of a global chip shortage, which helped it resume overtime and weekend shifts at domestic plants. It now plans to step up vehicle production in the second half to meet consumer demand.

    ABB, a big supplier to the automotive industry, said semiconductor chip bottlenecks were now easing as it reported its second quarter earnings. The Swiss company, which competes with Germany’s Siemens and France’s Schneider Electric, is seen as a barometer of the global economy with its control systems and motors used in the transport industry and factories.

    It anticipates double digit-comparable revenue growth in the next three months as the increased supply of chips means it can deliver factory robots, motors and drives ordered by customers.

    “The good thing to know, it is easing up,” CEO Bjorn Rosengren said about the semiconductor shortages which he said were “severe” at the start of the year. “Commitments from our suppliers are significantly better.”

    ‘Quite good’

    Production capacity at chip manufacturers was increasing, Rosengren said, while demand from other sectors, such as consumer electronics, seemed to be lower, allowing more chips to be allocated to industrial customers like ABB. “I would not say the problems are over yet, but we have commitments for the second half which look quite good.”

    Finnish telecommunications equipment maker Nokia said it expected the global semiconductor shortage to ease later this year, as it reported quarterly operating profit that beat market expectations.

    “The overall direction in the semiconductor industry is positive at the moment, but we did continue to have constraints in the second quarter,” CEO Pekka Lundmark said.

    Volkswagen last month forecast a strong second half of 2022 and progress in catching up with rival Tesla as easing chip shortages start to offset supply-chain bottlenecks and rising costs.

    But it was not all good news for companies who have already faced disruptions caused by the war in Ukraine and pandemic-related shutdowns in parts of China earlier this year.

    Step by step we are coming back to a more normalised supply environment

    Sweden’s Electrolux missed second quarter profit expectations on Thursday hit by supply-chain problems and a loss in its North American business. Europe’s biggest home appliances maker said it expected those supply-chain constraints to ease in the second half but warned of continued disruption risks ahead related to Covid-19 and the Ukraine crisis.

    Still, CEO Jonas Samuelson said the supply situation, including for semiconductors, looked better for the third and fourth quarters versus the preceding quarters. “Step by step we are coming back to a more normalised supply environment,” he told analysts and journalists during a webcast.  — John Revill, Helena Soderpalm, Supantha Mukherjee, Heekyong Yang and Byungwook Kim, (c) 2022 Reuters

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