Chip shortage spirals beyond cars to phones and game consoles

The first hints of trouble emerged in the spring of 2020. The world was in the early throes of a mysterious pandemic, which first obliterated demand then supercharged internet and mobile computing when economies regained their footing. That about-face – in a span of months – laid the seeds for potentially the most serious shortage in years of the semiconductors that lie at the heart of everything from smartphones to cars and TVs.
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