A Chip Shortage -- How Appropriate

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[–]adultmanhwa 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

yeah, and I'm really curious why is this?

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Covid panic, covid lock-downs, the Suez Canal getting blocked temporarily, the already terrible state of the economy, rich folks only investing into industries that are "recession-proof" (aka don't need the money), etc.

[–]Armageddons_Engineer 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

They're chugging along at good speed. Just not on automotive CANBUS accessory chips, bluetooth chips, various high volume low profit stuff. https://www.cbsnews.com/news/semiconductor-chip-shortage-60-minutes-2021-05-02/ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CAN_bus https://tauvicr.wordpress.com/2019/07/05/reading-car-data-from-the-can-bus/

Main thing with CANBus is, it saves on the size of the wire looms. No need to run control wires the length of the car for every little thing. Bad news is, bad implementations, poor zoning, and other silly shit, you could hook on a vampire tap onto an exposed cable, spoof the control bus and effectively own the vehicle. It's 20+ years in, and people are just finally working on how to prevent this. lol! https://ieeexplore.ieee.org/document/8319180 https://www.researchgate.net/figure/The-CAN-bus-spoofing-message-attack-model-with-ECU-nodes-in-the-vehicle_fig2_338710382