{"id":650608,"date":"2026-08-22T11:12:14","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T11:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/650608\/"},"modified":"2026-08-22T11:12:14","modified_gmt":"2026-08-22T11:12:14","slug":"components-crunch-chinas-carmakers-face-rising-costs-to-keep-intelligence-edge","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/650608\/","title":{"rendered":"Components crunch: China\u2019s carmakers face rising costs to keep intelligence edge"},"content":{"rendered":"

Chinese smart vehicle makers<\/a> have been hit by another setback as a global components shortage collides with surging prices of raw materials, driven by the artificial intelligence boom.It would take at least a year for the global supply chain to ramp up production of printed circuit boards (PCBs) and multilayer ceramic capacitors<\/a> (MLCCs) \u2013 two key parts that make vehicles intelligent \u2013 to meet rising demand, according to industry officials and analysts.<\/p>\n

\u201cThe components, though small, play a key role in the automotive industry\u2019s effort to make millions of cars more autonomous and smarter,\u201d Chen Jinzhu, CEO of the consultancy Shanghai Mingliang Auto Service, told the South China Morning Post on Wednesday.<\/p>\n

\u201cMarket demand for electric vehicles<\/a> [EVs] is falling, but component supply remains a thorny issue for leading players since they focus on intelligence to make their cars attractive to consumers.\u201d<\/p>\n

Industry officials said the global auto sector was facing a 20 to 30 per cent shortage of components, with prices more than tripling over the past year.<\/p>\n

Carmakers\u2019 cost pressure mainly comes from memory chips. But a lack of PCBs and MLCCs disrupts production and prevents assemblies from running smoothly<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

Dai Yong, Geely Auto<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Chinese smart vehicle makers have been hit by another setback as a global components shortage collides with surging…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":650609,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[261],"tags":[291,289,290,49680,274972,274975,18,274974,19,214600,17,80702,274973,82],"class_list":["post-650608","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-artificial-intelligence","tag-ai","tag-artificial-intelligence","tag-artificialintelligence","tag-autonomous-driving","tag-car-parts-shortage","tag-ecarx","tag-eire","tag-higher-raw-material-prices","tag-ie","tag-intelligent-vehicles","tag-ireland","tag-memory-chips","tag-pcb-and-mlcc","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/117138865974980962","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650608","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=650608"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/650608\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/650609"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=650608"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=650608"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=650608"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}