Susquehanna said that leading or predictive company-specific data show contractions in lead times for the second month in a row, with some declines of as much as 45 percent. Some of the largest declines were for microcontroller units, or MCUs, as well as power management and memory chips.
Field-programmable gate arrays, or FPGA, lead times remain “maxed out at our 52-week cap and are likely THE most constrained part in the ecosystem,” the report said. Susquehanna added that FPGA shortages affect networking, optical and telecommunications gear.
Chip bottlenecks have hit companies from Toyota Motor Corp. to Apple Inc., costing them billions of dollars in lost revenue because they can’t get enough semiconductors to meet demand for their products.
Citibank analysts forecast this week that semiconductor sales will rise 13 percent for 2022. But they cautioned about risks because of a downturn in personal computers and smartphones, along with their projection of a recession.