Dan Gardner
has copped a real beating over the past 18 months. While you-know-what had a massive direct impact on production as the pandemic unfolded, the same shutdown in the semiconductor manufacturing world continues to hobble the production of cars to this day and the numbers are staggering. The two biggest automotive consumers of computer chips are Toyota and Volkswagen, coughing up US$4bn (A$5.2bn) each per year for chips but
