The Global Chip Crisis

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Debby Wu

Ian King

Sohee Kim

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Semiconductor wafer 

Carmakers from Tokyo to Detroit cut production. PlayStations got harder to find in stores. Even Apple had to scale back its production. All had one thing in common: a global shortage of semiconductors.

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