Another China lockdown jeopardizes electronics, auto supply chains

Factory workers in China making printed circuit boards. COVID restrictions are forcing factories to close, slowing deliveries to laptop and automakers.

A five-day lockdown to contain the spread of COVID in the Chinese city of Kunshan, an important production center for electronics components, could severely squeeze the supply of laptops, mobile phones, TVs and automobiles, according to industry and media reports from the region.

Meanwhile, factory and logistics activity in Shanghai has been slashed further with the entire population of 25 million sheltering in place after authorities indefinitely extended a quarantine mandate that was supposed...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/another-china-lockdown-jeopardizes-electronics-auto-supply-chains

Amid semiconductor shortage, resale markets take off

Resale and secondary markets show growth amid semiconductor shortage

Here’s a crazy stat: If you wanted to buy a used car right now, there’s a good chance it would cost you more than a new model of that same car.

It sounds impossible, but that is exactly what is happening. With a shortage of semiconductors and automotive factories closing down left and right, new cars simply aren’t being produced, and that’s caused the value of cars on secondary and resale markets to skyrocket — to the point where they’re often more expensive than new cars.

But it isn’t just new...

https://www.freightwaves.com/news/amid-semiconductor-shortage-resale-markets-take-off

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