How is Ford going to deliver on the Gen 3 Raptor with this chip shortage?

[JefferyGT]

The topic of the thread is how Ford will overcome the chip shortage... nothing political about that at all. So please educate me here. How does a chip shortage tie into Biden or Trump or whoever is running the country an idiot?

It's all Geo politics. If you think Covid was an accident or natural you are gullible. China unleashed this virus to rid them of many issues. Namely Trump and the USA. Hing Kong protests. South China sea. Land mineral grabs in Africa. Human slave labor and organ harvesting accusations. It worked pretty well wouldn't you say??? Automotive industry be damned.

 

[jjm047]

It's all Geo politics. If you think Covid was an accident or natural you are gullible. China unleashed this virus to rid them of many issues. Namely Trump and the USA. Hing Kong protests. South China sea. Land mineral grabs in Africa. Human slave labor and organ harvesting accusations. It worked pretty well wouldn't you say??? Automotive industry be damned.

Yup

 

[mts6175]

Haven't read the entire thread so forgive me if it's already posted, but the dealer I talked to today said their instructions from Ford are they won't be delivered until '22 and will be a '22 model year.

 

[jeanco]

To put it plainly, the Coronavirus pandemic has been the primary cause of the chip shortage. ... The cost of silicon has risen substantially due to the mass production of the COVID-19 vaccines; the silicon needed to make the vials is the same as the silicon used to manufacture chips and personal computers.
The world is in the grips of a global chip shortage because of demand for semiconductors surging far beyond capacity for supply. The shortage is crippling players in industries as diverse and far afield as automotives and smartphones—though carmakers have it the worst.

According to Goldman Sachs, 169 US industries embed semiconductors in their products. The bank is forecasting a 20% average shortfall of computer chips among affected industries, with some of the components used to make chips in short supply until at least this fall and possibly into 2022

Several factors are driving the crunch, which was initially concentrated in the auto industry. The first is the coronavirus pandemic, which plunged the global economy into recession last year, upending supply chains and changing consumer shopping patterns. Carmakers cut back orders for chips while tech companies, whose products were boosted by lockdown living, snapped up as many as they could.
Other shock, such as US government sanctions on Chinese technology companies had also contributed to the shortage of supply.
Blame Trump!

 

[hyrepower]

To put it plainly, the Coronavirus pandemic has been the primary cause of the chip shortage. ... The cost of silicon has risen substantially due to the mass production of the COVID-19 vaccines; the silicon needed to make the vials is the same as the silicon used to manufacture chips and personal computers.
The world is in the grips of a global chip shortage because of demand for semiconductors surging far beyond capacity for supply. The shortage is crippling players in industries as diverse and far afield as automotives and smartphones—though carmakers have it the worst.

According to Goldman Sachs, 169 US industries embed semiconductors in their products. The bank is forecasting a 20% average shortfall of computer chips among affected industries, with some of the components used to make chips in short supply until at least this fall and possibly into 2022

Several factors are driving the crunch, which was initially concentrated in the auto industry. The first is the coronavirus pandemic, which plunged the global economy into recession last year, upending supply chains and changing consumer shopping patterns. Carmakers cut back orders for chips while tech companies, whose products were boosted by lockdown living, snapped up as many as they could.
Other shock, such as US government sanctions on Chinese technology companies had also contributed to the shortage of supply.
Blame Trump!

you definitely are a pseudo-intellect. The chip shortage has absolutely nothing to do with the moronic presumptions you made above. Furthermore I didn’t notice any shortages under Trumps watch, it was the neo liberal communistic forced lockdowns that caused unemployment to those weak and dumb enough to have obeyed.

 

[Boss Hoss]

you definitely are a pseudo-intellect. The chip shortage has absolutely nothing to do with the moronic presumptions you made above. Furthermore I didn’t notice any shortages under Trumps watch, it was the neo liberal communistic forced lockdowns that caused unemployment to those weak and dumb enough to have obeyed.

LOL Couple of rocket scientists here!

 

[jeanco]

Yes,it all political............and peoples working at GS are stupid!

 

[hyrepower]

LOL Couple of rocket scientists here!

Another presumptive moron whom can’t even come up with anything intelligent to say other than a generic cliche

 

[Frogger22]

LOL Couple of rocket scientists here!

I’m in school for aerospace engineering so does that count?

 

[GordoJay]

I’m in school for aerospace engineering so does that count?

Only if you graduate. I'm studying to be the next Einstein. Sixty years and counting now ... making bagels is harder than it looks.