On September 26, it was reported by DigiTimes that Shibata Yingli, the chief executive of Renesa Electronics, an automobile semiconductor manufacturer, said that the current shortage of chips is bound to last until the middle of next year.
据报道，9月26日DigiTimes汽车半导体制造商瑞萨电子最高执行长柴田英利表示，芯片短缺将持续到明年年中。
He said that the problem was not the shortage of key semiconductors, but the lack of minor chips for peripherals. Shibata Yingli said that people may be surprised by the shortage of secondary chips, and it takes time for demand to ease.
他说，问题不是关键半导体短缺，而是外部设备缺乏次要芯片（minorchip）。
柴田英利表示，你可能会对次要芯片的短缺感到惊讶，减少需要时间。
Renesa is one of the world's three major auto chip manufacturers, and is on a par with NXP in the Netherlands and Infineon in Germany. Shibata Yingli and other insiders predict that the shortage of chips will ease around the end of this year, but sporadic shortages are expected to continue until the middle of next year.
瑞萨是世界三大汽车芯片制造商之一，与荷兰恩智浦和德国英飞凌并排。
柴田英利和其他业内人士预测，今年年底芯片短缺将有所缓解，但预计零星缺货将持续到明年年中。
It is understood that Renesa was founded in 2002 and merged with Hitachi and Mitsubishi chip divisions. Last year, it created a record sales volume of 993.9 billion yen and operating profit of 173.8 billion yen. The estimated sales volume in the first nine months of this year was 1.1 trillion yen.
据了解，瑞萨成立于2002年，与日立、三菱芯片部合并，去年创纪录的9939亿日元销售额和1738亿日元营业利润，今年前9个月估计销售额为1.1万亿日元。
Shibata Yingli was responsible for investing 130 billion yen in Renesa when he was a senior manager of the Japanese government and private sector trading funds. Renesa has become a major player in the embedded chip market. Embedded chips are increasingly used in household appliances and automobiles.
柴田英利担任日本政府和私营部门运营基金的高管，负责投资瑞萨1300亿日元，瑞萨已成为嵌入式芯片市场的主要参与者，越来越多地用于家用电器和汽车。
Shibata Yingli said that he hoped to develop Renesa Electronics into a major player in the embedded semiconductor market, distinguishing competitors in the memory chip field dominated by South Korea and Taiwan. He said that Renesa's advantage lies in its products and technology covering the entire semiconductor chip field, rather than just manufacturing memory chips.
柴田英利表示，他希望将瑞萨电子发展成为嵌入式半导体市场的主要参与者，区分韩国和台湾主导的存储芯片领域的竞争对手。他说，瑞萨的优势在于拥有整个半导体芯片领域的产品和技术，而不仅仅是制造存储芯片。