How is the semiconductor industry coping with the chip shortage ?
Whilst semiconductor companies have managed to increase throughput of chips following the pandemic , production levels are still not out of the woods . Current lead times can exceed four months , which can soon become ten months if said product is moved to another manufacturing site . Changing manufacturer altogether can add another 12 months at least , and some chips contain manufacturer-specific intellectual property that may require alterations or licensing .
“ Hardware architectures have used a combination of central processing units ( CPUs ), memory , external storage , and network in a uniform way ”
STEPHEN SIMPSON FORMER PRINCIPAL DATA ARCHITECT AT QUANTUM BLACK
“ Organisations must carefully evaluate their current cloud-deployment architecture and evaluate how to best harness new setups proposed by cloud vendors based on proprietary hardware . In addition , they should assess the cost and timeline of these contracts to optimise new technologies . Since the hardware and possible efficient solution of the aforementioned use cases now become available as a service , leveraging these new services when encountering specific optimisation problems will be key ,” he said .
In short , the cloud infrastructure industry is changing everyday ; it ’ s up to data centre companies and cloud providers to make use of the advantages offered by SoCs so that they can keep up for years to come .
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