Faced with a shortage of electronic chips that lasts and could continue until the horizon 2023, Sony would consider co-building with TSMC, the largest flea manufacturer in the world, a new factory in Japanese territory. It is Reuters who reserves this news: a new electronic chip production plant could see the day on the Kumamoto website, south of Japan. It would be a partnership between Sony and TSMC ( Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company ), the largest global manufacturer of electronic chips based in Taiwan, with a help from the Japanese state. The investment would be 800 billion yen, more than 6 billion euros, and this new plant should come out of land in 2024. It would focus on the production of fleas for the automotive industry, camera sensors and other sectors affected by the shortage. Video game consoles are obviously part of consumer products whose production is slowed by this shortage situation. In July, Jim Ryan, CEO of Sony Interactive Entertainment, remembered th...