Are chips coming available?
Just saw this article. Toyota has apparently secured enough chips to ramp production back up. Toyota Those running with smaller trailers may find it interesting, but have to wonder if this will no...
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theoldwizard1 wrote:
What few people know is the fact that Ford DID try to design their own chips but could not get any of the major "fabs" to play along !
Ford Microelectronics was founded in 1982, while Ford still owned Ford Aerospace (a minor defense/weapons contractor) and long before they spun off Visteon. They closed shop in 1999.
The only thing that they had a hand in designing was the EEC-V chip (aka 8065). The EEC-IV chip (8061) was designed and fabbed by Intel. The commercialized version of this chip was the 8096.
In the 22 years since Ford gave up on their own chips Tesla came along and made it work. Ford has been losing market share and Tesla has been gaining. The old companies are finally starting to learn some valuable lessons from the upstart and are coming out with some cutting edge products. I just hope that they are more successful than GM's EV efforts so far.
