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exclusive interview with technology company, GBT Technologies Inc. (OTCPINK:GTCH), discussing the global microchip
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With the ongoing global supply shortage of microchips
impacting sectors ranging from automotive to mobile phones and more, companies
are finding new strategies to adapt, including taking on chip manufacturing and
design innovation.
One firm that falls into the latter category is GBT
Technologies Inc. (OTC PINK:GTCH), an early stage
technology developer in (IoT), and Artificial Intelligence (AI) Enabled Mobile
Technology Platforms, and also the creator of a 3D, multiplanar, integrated
circuits (IC) design and manufacturing technology. GBT’s CTO, Danny Rittman
recently spoke to Investorideas.com about the state of the integrated circuit
shortage and GBT’s own aforementioned chip IP. Regarding the supply shortage,
Rittman said it won’t be fixed any time soon, but with the easing of COVID-19
regulations – largely attributed as the main driver of the shortage – things
will begin to see improvement.
“I do predict it will take some time,” Rittman said. “I
hope, as we all do, that in the next year or so we’ll start to see things get
back on track, especially with COVID restrictions being lessened. It seems like
the world is deciding that we need to go back to normality with COVID or
without COVID.”
The following excerpt from a Bloomberg piece on the subject outlines the
widespread impact of COVID-19 on the market:
Uncertainties
caused by the pandemic also led to sharp swings in orders last year [2020],
which in turn muddied the waters for chipmakers trying to match capacity with
demand. That’s why carmakers have had to halt production in 2021 and why
Playstations and Xboxes are getting harder to find in stores.
Rittman talked about the increasing trend for firms to
design their own chips, as a means to maintain exclusivity on their
intellectual property (IP).
“Companies today tend to try to keep their IP in house,
so it’s much better to design your own chip and outsource less,” Rittman said.
“The microchips of today are getting more proprietary, and IP is often kept
confidential because companies don’t want their IP to be duplicated or stolen.”
“Of course, on a general basis companies will sometimes
want to just buy to shorten the design time. So they’ll definitely continue to
buy a USB unit or HDMI unit [for instance] to plug and play and shorten the
design. But I do see that proprietary design parts will probably from now on be
more confidential and done in house.”
But while many companies take on the responsibility of
chip design, the actual manufacturing of chips takes place in a handful of
major foundries located mainly in Taiwan and South Korea. Recently, chip making
giant Intel Corporation (NasdaqGS:INTC) announced that it will invest more than $20
billion in the construction of two new leading-edge chip factories in Ohio in a
bid to “establish a new epicenter for advanced chipmaking in the Midwest.” Pat
Gelsinger, CEO of Intel, commented:
"Today’s
investment marks another significant way Intel is leading the effort to restore
U.S. semiconductor manufacturing leadership. Intel’s actions will help build a
more resilient supply chain and ensure reliable access to advanced
semiconductors for years to come. Intel is bringing leading capability and
capacity back to the United States to strengthen the global semiconductor
industry. These factories will create a new epicenter for advanced chipmaking
in the U.S. that will bolster Intel’s domestic lab-to-fab pipeline and strengthen
Ohio’s leadership in research and high tech."
Tesla (NasdaqGS:TSLA) notably withstood difficulties
imposed by chip shortages that plagued its automotive competitors in the last
year. According to Reuters, the company’s “ability to design
components in-house,” gave it “agility in making tweaks to parts and coping
with supply chain issues that hit other automakers much harder.” This included
giving customers the option to forgo certain parts, such as Bluetooth chips and
USB ports, and the removal of some features including radar sensors and lumbar
support for front passenger seats, which streamlined production. With regard to
chips in particular, a Tesla insider told Reuters:
"We
design circuit boards by ourselves, which allow us to modify their design
quickly to accommodate alternative chips like powerchips.”
Gilles Mabire, the CEO of German automotive parts firm
Continental AG (OTC:CTTAY), told trade publication Automobilwoche that his company does not
plan to make its own chips, but “plans to work more closely with its suppliers
and customers and change the chip design so that it can be altered more quickly
if necessary.” Regarding the chip shortage, Mabire said:
"You
can't solve that with in-house manufacturing in a single area. You need
specialists for that, and the automotive sector alone is simply too small for
this."
Mabire went on to opine that reducing the amount of
semiconductors in vehicles was not ultimately a viable solution:
"If
we look into the future, the switch to central computers may indeed reduce the
number of processors and chipsets. But at the same time, complexity and
performance levels increase dramatically. So, I find it hard to imagine that we
will get by with fewer semiconductors."
Another response to current and possibly future chip
shortages might be to simply make more efficient chips. GBT Technologies Inc.
recently announced that it filed a continuation patent
application for its 3D, multiplanar, integrated circuits (IC) design and
manufacturing technology. This 3D microchip design utilizes a
multi-dimensional, multi-planar IC structure that may potentially be used in IC
fabrication. The object of the design is to facilitate an increase in memory
size capacity, speed, performance, and processing power.
“The advantage of our new architecture is its
capability of reducing the consumption of power,” Rittman said. “So it consumes
less power and gives more real estate on the silicon, connectivity is actually
shorter and therefore faster and the performance is faster.”
Rittman said that although it’s more complex design
asks more from manufacturers, the chip’s benefits will be evident.
“It will require manufacturers to introduce new machinery
to produce it, but this is definitely the future because we’ve kind of reached
the limit regarding microchips’ silicon yield and real estate (the pure area on
the silicon),” he said.
Rittman also explained the importance of securing the
chip’s continuation patent application.
“Since we see this patent as one of our major IPs in
this domain, we’re going to be continually adding to it and filing more patents
to protect its concept,” he said.
Sam Mowers,
Investorideas.com
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