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By Reuters | Updated: 25 January 2021 10:08 IST The shortage affected Volkswagen, Ford Motor, Subaru, Toyota Motor, Nissan Motor, and other car makers Highlights The German automobile industry was already in direct talks with TSMC Aim is to enable additional capacities and deliveries of semiconductors Berlin is now planning to increase state to ramp up production ment googletag.cmd.push(function () { googletag.display('adslot160x600'); }); has asked Taiwan to persuade Taiwanese manufacturers to help ease a shortage of semiconductor chips in the auto sector which is hampering its fledgling economic recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic. Automakers around the world are shutting assembly lines due to problems in the delivery of semiconductors, which in some cases have been exacerbated by the former Trump istration's actions against key Chinese chip factories. The shortage has affected Fiat Chrysler Automobiles, and other car makers. Volkswagen Expects Software to Make Up Most of Auto Industry Innovation In a letter seen by Reuters on Sunday, German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier asked his Taiwanese counterpart Wang Mei-hua to address the issue in talks with Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Co (TW, the world's largest contract chipmaker and one of 's main suppliers. "I would be pleased if you could take on this matter and underline the importance of additional semiconductor capacities for the German automotive industry to TSMC," Altmaier wrote. Altmaier said the aim was to enable additional capacities and deliveries of semiconductors in the short and medium term. The German automobile industry was already in direct talks with TSMC about hiking deliveries and there had been "very constructive" signals from TSMC to solve the problem, he wrote. A German economy ministry spokeswoman said it was monitoring the situation very closely and that it was in talks on the issue with the car industry. TSMC Hikes Forecast as COVID-19 Pandemic Transforms Digital Demand Digital sovereignty To reduce dependencies from Asian suppliers and avoid similar problems in the future, Berlin is now planning to increase state to ramp up production capacities of semiconductors in and Europe, the spokeswoman added. Taiwan's Ministry of Economic Affairs said it has received requests through diplomatic channels to help ease a shortage of chips for the auto sector although it was not aware of Altmaier's letter. It said it had begun talks with domestic chip suppliers in response to requests from other countries and asked them to "provide full assistance". "The relevant supply and demand situation is also closely related to the plans of automotive chip factories to reduce inventory during the off-season," the ministry said. TSMC, in a statement, said the issue of chips shortages for auto companies was very important to them. 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