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'they will have to pay': Malaysia chip crunch triggers new period in supply deals

producers are dashing to stock up chip shares depleted right through coronavirus pandemic factory curbs - now not least automakers who prior cancelled orders anticipating poor demand. At factories in Malaysia, operators like chip packaging firm Unisem say that force is leading buyers that promote chips on to auto and electronics producers to become willing to sign up for massive cost hikes, some even requesting as many assembled chips as flora can produce - whatever thing the charge. but Malaysia's chip meeting trade, accounting for more than a tenth of a worldwide trade value over $20 billion, warns that shortages - exacerbated by years of below-funding in simple chip creation, while high-conclusion semiconductors were favoured - will last as a minimum two years.