Report… The global shortage of chips affects Samsung more than Apple...

The world suffers from a crisis in semiconductors, including the chips that allow electronic devices to capture, process and store data.

These micro-components are essential for different industries; It is involved in the manufacture of many electronic devices such as smart phones, computers, video game players, cars, especially control panels, aircraft, information and telephone networks, and others.

The main producers of semiconductors are Taiwan’s TSMC, South Korean companies such as Samsung and SK Hynix, and in the United States there is a major producer, Intel. (Intel).

Smartphones damaged

A new report shows the entire smartphone industry is taking a hit, but one company has been more resilient to weather the crisis. With the easing of measures to limit the spread of the Corona pandemic globally, it does not seem that sales figures in the field of smartphones are going as expected and not witnessing a significant recovery after successive closures.

A report by Hong Kong-based Counterpoint indicates that this shortage is directly due to the inability of supply to keep pace with demand, and the report notes that “some smartphone OEMs and sellers say they have received only 80% of the required quantities of key components during the second quarter of the year.

The foundation added that things seemed to get worse in the third quarter, as some sellers only got 70%, according to what was reported by the magazine.Tom’s Guide“(tomsguide).

The report noted that 90% of the industry is affected, but the pain is not evenly distributed. “Semiconductor shortages affect all brands in ecosystems,” says Tom Kang, director of research at Counter Point, as he examines the names of major hitters such as Samsung, Oppo and Xiaomi.

However, there was one company that seemed more resilient than others, and Kang said, “Apple” appears to be the most resilient and least affected by the shortage situation.

But even Apple has sounded the alarm that inventory may not flow as smoothly as in normal times.

And in the latest statment To investors, the company warned that growth could be affected by the shortage, adding, “We expect production constraints during the last September quarter to be greater than what we saw during the previous June quarter.”

“The restrictions will primarily affect the iPhone and the iPad,” said Apple Chief Financial Officer Luca Mestre.

So far, as Counterpoint research indicates, the lack of an iPhone 13 does not appear to be a major problem, but other companies have not been so lucky, such as Apple.

و .شار a report A previous research institute, “Wave7”, indicated that sellers were particularly struggling to maintain the stock of Samsung and “OnePlus” mid-range phones, and Google was forced to limit the launch of its “Pixel 5a” device to only two regions. They are the United States and Japan.

And while we expect the Google Pixel 6 to arrive sometime this month, we probably wouldn’t be surprised to see a shortage of it.

Meanwhile, the fate of the Samsung Galaxy S21 FE – which was feared to be canceled again due to a lack of chips – is once again in serious doubt.

And the ongoing chip crisis may mean that phone manufacturers have to be more selective about which phones they prioritize in the short to medium term.

Global chip crisis

Semiconductor manufacturers are facing difficulties to meet global demand, at a time when they have sometimes had to temporarily close their factories due to the outbreak of the Corona virus.

It is noteworthy that the semiconductor market was mainly under pressure due to the trade war between the United States and China, and major companies such as Huawei last year stockpiled large quantities to reduce the impact of sanctions.