WASHINGTON (Reuters) – A bipartisan group of eight governors from U.S. auto states on Friday urged President Joe Biden to do more to press semiconductor firms to address a global shortage of automotive chips that has cut some vehicle production.
The governors of Michigan, Indiana, Ohio, Kentucky, Kansas South Carolina, Alabama and Missouri asked Biden in a letter to follow foreign governments in urging semiconductor and wafer companies to expand production and “temporarily reallocate a modest portion of their current production to auto-grade wafer production.”
(Reporting by David Shepardson; Editing by Chizu Nomiyama)