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Originally Posted by chris719
This is true, but TSMC is actually not a supplier of note for what there is a shortage of currently in automotive. The chips that are in short supply are not-too-exciting parts from Renesas, Infineon, NXP, STM, etc. that are all fabricated on much older nodes like 28nm and up. Well, TSMC does fab quite a bit of older process stuff too, but they are not close to the only game in town for these types of chips. Infineon, Renesas, NXP (Freescale), STMicro, UMC, Global Foundries, TI, etc. manufacture the bulk of these chips. TSMC is only the bottleneck for < 20nm, so that mainly affects the newest products from Apple, AMD, NVIDIA, Qualcomm, Broadcom, Xilinx, Intel (Altera).
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Yes you are correct. For the normal control units they use older nodes, which there are plenty of other manufacturers too. But I (maybe wrongly) assumed it's the high power components that are lacking, e.g. Driving Assistant Professional (they removed that option from some of the lower priced cars, removal of passenger lumbar support is probably unrelated to chip shortage) which I think uses more or less state of the art nodes for their CPUs.