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The Chip Shortage

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The Chip Shortage is one of the companies we cover in depth.

We dig behind The Chip Shortage's stated narrative to unravel the real strategy — the calls that actually shaped it, and why they played out the way they did.

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The Crisis Response · Crisis & Reinvention
The Pandemic Pulled the Trigger on a Chip Crisis Decades of Concentration Had Loaded
Automakers canceled their own chip orders in early 2020, then panicked when demand rebounded. The pandemic didn't break the supply chain — it pulled a trigger on a crisis decades of geographic concentration and just-in-time dogma had already loaded.
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