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Japan earthquake: Automotive semiconductor supply chains show resilience

A magnitude 7.1 earthquake struck Japan's Kumamoto Prefecture on Kyushu Island on July 28, prompting precautionary inspections, temporary disruptions and localized power outages across the region. While several chipmakers suspended operations for safety checks, initial assessments indicate limited facility damage and gradual resumption of production. This report provides an update to our previous insight on the July 28 Kumamoto earthquake and its potential implications for the semiconductor a...

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Supply Chain
20-Jul-2026
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Pax Silica: The car industry enters the silicon security state

For most of the postwar era, the automotive industry focused its anxieties on the traditional pillars of steel, oil and labor. As the sector evolved, it later found itself preoccupied with the complexities of battery supply chains. Now, it must contend with lithography, gallium, trusted foundries and the unsettling question of whether a chip buried in a door controller carries the wrong geopolitical ancestry. This is the logic behind Pax Silica, the latest American attempt to turn...

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eCommerce
30-Oct-2023

In-vehicle commerce and payment platforms—it pays to have one !

The arrival of the software-defined vehicle, with its high compute power and robust cloud connectivity, is positively impacting many facets of the automotive industry, one of them being in-car commerce. Vehicles have begun to function as mobile wallets as automakers, traditional payment companies, digital infrastructure providers and technology companies come together to seize revenue streams arising out of the connected dashboard. The days of drivers digging out their wallets at a gas station o...

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