Elon Musk Urges U.S. To Cut Reliance On Asia For Semiconductor Chips — ‘Fear Of Running Out Is Causing Every Company To Overorder — Like The Toilet Paper Shortage But At Epic Scale’

Supply chain issues created during the global coronavirus pandemic cost automakers billions of dollars in 2021 and prompted some companies to build domestic manufacturing facilities to solve the problem. "Never seen anything like it," Tesla CEO Elon Musk posted on the platform now known as X. "Fear of running out [of computer chips] is causing every company to overorder — like the toilet paper shortage but at epic scale." Tesla depends on Taiwan Semiconductor to produce its processors, but it's