Global shortage of computer chips could last two years, says IBM boss

Tech industry struggles to keep up with demand brought on by the reopening of the world economy

The shortage of computer chips plaguing industries around the world and helping to fuel inflation could last another two years, the boss of IBM has said.

As Ford said it was redesigning some car parts to overcome the crippling shortage of semiconductors, IBM’s president, Jim Whitehurst, told the BBC on Friday that the tech industry was struggling to keep up with demand brought on by the reopening of the world economy.

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