And it’s not just cars.

The 50-year-old Brazilian has been at Qualcomm since 1995 and became president in 2018.

“If you asked me, ‘what keeps me up at night?’

And the shortages likely will continue until late 2021, Amon added.

When the novel coronavirus pandemic hit last year, people stayed at home and stopped shopping.

Factories closed, and companies pared back orders.

But component manufacturers couldn’t keep up with the surge.

Automakers' just-in-time manufacturing strategy, which has long benefited them, backfired.

At the same time,Huawei’sdecline in the phone market has impacted the technology industry.

The shortage is “impacting everything, and of course [is] impactingphones.”

Here’s what else Amon said in the interview.

On building chips

If there’s a shortage, why not build more factories to produce chips?

“We need to double-check these supply chains are secure and reliable.”

Most advanced processors are built overseas.

Most chipmakers like Qualcomm don’t actually build their own semiconductors.

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Biden’s push to build chips in the US won’t help things now.

“This is going to get better as we get to the end of 2021,” Amon said.

Qualcomm, for one, won’t be constructing fabs to build its own processors, Amon said.

“Manufacturing of semiconductors is a whole different expertise.”

It turns out the timing also surprised Amon.

3,” Amon said.

That could mean much more powerful and battery-efficientSamsung Galaxysmartphones,Lenovolaptopsand General Motors cars.

“Off-the-shelf is not going to be enough going forward,” Creative Strategies analyst Carolina Milanesi said.

“Having that vertical integration will give them a better opportunity to differentiate themselves.”

Apple also designs its own Arm-based processor cores, which allowed it to introduce itspopular M1 Macs.

“We needed to have a roadmap to lead in that transition.”

At the time of the acquisition offer in January, Nuvia didn’t yet have working CPUs in production.

“The strength of the Arm roadmap is its independence,” Amon said.

“Nvidiadoes not need to buy Arm to do what they said they’re going to do.”

Amon disputed the argument that Nvidia needs to buy Arm to help Arm compete withInteland its X86 architecture.

Benchmarks of Apple’s Arm-based M1 Mac processorshow it beating the performance of Intel-powered Mac Pro models.