Maurits Tichelman has worked Intel for 31 years in a variety of capacities. Since becoming Vice President of Sales and Marketing, General Manager for EMEA, he has played a significant role for the blue brand in our region of the world. 

Our colleagues from Dutch based Hardware Info had a conversation with him today and in that conversation some interesting news was shared. The semiconductor industry has received a great deal of attention recently. As a result of a variety of factors, shortages have occurred, resulting in, among other things, the shutdown of automobile plants and the absence or limited availability of a wide range of other products. What does this mean for Intel, and how is the firm responding to the situation was a question asked?

Tichelman : Intel is facing challenges in its supply chain. We are mainly confronted with a shortage of substrates. This means that our chips cannot be assembled. We now have silicon on the shelf, which cannot be converted into a complete product.

If you look at the enormous demand in the consumer market, among other things, it has been quite a challenge since last year to keep the supply chain going. We have worked with all governments and were on the priority list in most countries. This allowed us to deliver our products to our customers, but also to receive the ingredients for our production. We expect that we will still be working in 2022 to find the balance with the supply of substrates for certain products. So even in 2022 the availability of certain products will not be optimal. In 2023 we will have this on track and the shortages will be over.

Intel predicts that chip shortages will end in 2023