Distributors Meet at EDS 2022 , China Lockdowns, and Automakers Cutting Basic Features: May 2022

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EDS 2022: Conversations With Industry Leaders

Distributors converged in Las Vegas for the first time in over two years to tackle current and emerging challenges. Everything from managing shortages to leveraging new forms of intelligence, and how we can collaborate to move forward together. Learn how Supplyframe is helping distributors prepare for the future.

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What's the Economic Cost of China's COVID-19 Lockdown?

• In the past two years, the global supply chain has been hit with constant roadblocks-- from trade wars to geopolitical conflicts, to new COVID lockdowns in China, all happening alongside the ongoing chip shortages. Our latest Commodity IQ?alert captures the ramification of China’s lockdown on pricing, lead times, and market conditions through Q1 2023.
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The Electronics Supply Chain Challenges are Getting Worse

• Our latest CommodityIQ data paints a grim picture of the current conditions of the electronics supply chain. With no relief in sight for the second quarter, the commodity shortages and cost inflation is bound to continue at least through the first half of 2023. Find out what our CEO Steve Flagg has to say about these burgeoning challenges.

Chip Shortages Automakers to Remove Popular Features

• Here's the latest on the chip shortage saga: Ford and GM are now selling cars and trucks without common features the models were designed to include such as heated seats, park assists and heated steering wheels. Learn more about these developments and how automakers are coping in the latest?article on Supplyframe Resources.

Electronics Roundup

• Quanta Computer Inc., Taiwan's major Apple Inc. supplier, cuts its outlook for second quarter, joining a growing list of manufacturers warning about the fallout from lockdowns aimed at containing China's worst COVID-19 outbreak in two years.
• United States and EU have agreed to boost trade ties to mitigate the current supply shortages, against Russia's war in Ukraine and Chinese economic policies.
• Apple?has shown it can design the brains of its devices, and is now poised to do something potentially even harder: create the chips that enable them to communicate with the internet.