BERLIN — Semiconductorshortages which have created bottlenecks for Germany’s automotive business will take years to resolve regardless of chipmakers’ plans to construct factories within the nation, Renate Vachenauer, Audi’s head of procurement, was quoted as saying by a German newspaper.

German automakers and electronics producers have been hit arduous by manufacturing delays, brought on by a worldwide shortfall of chips.

Executives and policymakers are re-thinking provide traces and attempting to cut back reliance on a handful of Asian and U.S. chip suppliers.

Berlin has been courting the world’s largest contract chipmakers with billions of euros in subsidies.

Chipmakers resembling U.S. Intel and Taiwan’s TSM this yr introduced plans to construct factories in Germany.

“It takes years, in spite of everything. It is about billions of {dollars} are being invested,” Vachenauer, was quoted as saying in an interview with the Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper.

Vachenauer stated automakers might ease the bottlenecks by decreasing the forms of chips used from the 8,000 differing kinds in autos at this time.

“We’ve to make use of many levers to stabilize the availability of semiconductors and likewise fill up on the dealer market to some extent,” she added.