Automotive partnerships can reduce cost pressure when they cut complexity without creating new supply risks. Four models and the decisions that make them work.
Chip crisis, cost pressure and shifting alliances shaped the German electronics industry in 2025. What changed in the supply chain — and why resilience now depends on earlier decisions.
A component passes through many stations — from goods receipt to handover. Why the link between component, process step, and outcome often gets lost, and how a Chain of Trust fixes that.
A new ZVEI study shows: Europe's semiconductor demand will double by 2040, equivalent to 65 new fabs. New capacity is being built in Asia. What this means for your parts supply — and what you can do today.
Trade restrictions, raw-material concentration and allocation pressure rarely arrive as a headline in procurement. They surface as critical parts, lead-time shifts and redesign pressure.
Legacy nodes, DDR4 phase‑out and geopolitics are making “everyday” components strategic risks. The article explains what drives the next chip crisis – and how transparency and Critical Parts by btv help you respond instead of firefighting.
An end-of-life notice rarely affects just one part. Obsolescence management helps teams decide when a last-time buy, alternative component, long-term storage or redesign is needed.
The Nexperia crisis is far from over – just less noisy. An automotive supplier relies on wafer sourcing in Europe and btv’s TAK one‑stop shop to stabilise its semiconductor supply and cut complexity.
The chip crisis 2.0 shows that efficiency without control leads nowhere. While new European fabs take years, companies can act now: TAK makes supply chains transparent, audit‑ready and cost‑efficient – without margins, with full control.
btv technologies ranks 56th out of 2 million companies and 3rd in the electronics industry. The TAK model for transparency, agility, and cost efficiency makes the difference.
