EVs Boost Chip Demand Despite Semiconductor Makers’ Woes

The digitization of cars is helping to give some chip makers a lift

Tesla’s demand for automotive chips will increase as it moves toward the goal of producing 20 million vehicles a year by 2030.Photo: David Paul Morris/Bloomberg News

Chip sales that have declined across many customer segments are still enjoying one area of rising demand: cars.

Growing sales of electric vehicles—which tend to use more semiconductors than their gas-powered counterparts—coupled with greater automation of all vehicles, have kept producers of chips for cars busy. The long-term outlook for the market appears robust, Tesla Inc. suggested this past week, as Chief Executive Elon Musk detailed plans for his car company to scale up to 20 million vehicles a year by 2030, from around 1.3 million in 2022.

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