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Thank you, Mr. Air, a netizen of CTOnews.com, for your clue delivery! CTOnews.com Sept. 26, according to DigiTimes report, car semiconductor maker Renesa Electronics Chief Executive Shibata Yingli said that the current chip shortage is bound to last until the middle of next year.

The problem, he says, is not a shortage of critical semiconductors, but a lack of secondary chips (minor chip) for peripherals. Mr Shibata said people might be surprised by the shortage of secondary chips and that it would take time for demand to ease.

Renesas is one of the top three automotive chipmakers in the world, alongside NXP of the Netherlands and Infineon of Germany. Shibata and others in the industry expect the chip shortage to ease around the end of the year, but sporadic shortages are expected to persist until the middle of next year.

CTOnews.com learned that Renesa, founded in 2002 and merged with Hitachi and Mitsubishi chip units, generated record sales of 993.9 billion yen and operating profit of 173.8 billion yen last year, compared with estimated sales of 1.1 trillion yen in the first nine months of this year.

Shibata Yingli was responsible for the 130 billion yen investment in Renesas when he was an executive at the Japanese government and private sector trading funds. Renesas has become a major player in the embedded chip market, which is increasingly used in household appliances and cars.

Shibata Yingli said he hopes to develop Renesas into a major player in the embedded semiconductor market, distinguishing between memory chip competitors dominated by South Korea and Taiwan. Renesas's advantage, he says, is that it has products and technologies that cover the entire field of semiconductor chips, not just memory chips.

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