3 半导体成“拦路虎”，汽车产业如何解决芯片短缺困境？

Semiconductors pose an unwelcome roadblock for carmakers
半导体成为了令汽车制造商头疼的“拦路虎”
A 1_____(short) of semiconductors has left car firms unable 2_____(install) the electronics that control entertainment systems, safety features and driving aids. Ferdinand Dudenhöffer of the Center Automotive Research, a German think-tank, reckons the bottlenecks(瓶颈) will dent forecast worldwide production in 2021 by 5.2m cars, to 74.8m.
Ford's net profit fell by half in the second quarter, year on year, 3_____(main) owing to the chip crunch. Jaguar Land Rover expects sales in the three months to September to be 50% 4_____(low) than planned.
Expecting weak sales, in 2020 carmakers pared back orders of electronics, and then underestimated the rapidity of recovery this year. When the pandemic boosted demand from makers of electronic devices for those 5_____(lock) down at home, car firms found 6_____(they) low in the semiconductor pecking order.
Established car firms also long ago outsourced 7_____(develop) of most technology to big suppliers. This has kept chip firms and car firms at arm's length.
As Pedro Pacheco of Gartner points out, software 8_____(become) a significant source of profits as cars move from a disparate(分离的) collection of chips to a centralised "brain" connected to the internet 9____ can be updated remotely. In 2019 Tesla made an average of nearly $1,200 per vehicle from selling software updates, Mr Pacheco notes.
As the industry braces for a more electric and electronic future, it can ill afford 10_____(leave) its fate in someone else's hands.
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1 shortage  2 to install  3 mainly  4 lower  
5 locked  6 themselves  7 development  
8 will become  9 that  10 to leave