for more let's bring in our business correspondent charles villany chelsea worried about the troubles the shortage of semiconductors are causing to the auto industry in particular will this deal now help resolve the problem. no the shortage in semiconductors that is likely to last for several more months at the very least despite these mergers and this is particularly a problem for the auto industry because we've seen a huge increase in demand for semiconductors as there's been a boom in sales of home tech equipment people moving to home office people buying things like play stations and it's much more profitable for semiconductor makers to make the products for that tech equipment instead of the auto equipment it's a very low margin business so all of the capacity right now is being directed at the home tech market in some of these these mergers that we're seeing it will in the long term likely boost production but for now automakers are really low down on the priority list for semiconductor makers and it takes a long time to ramp up capacity but chelsea in a different aspect of the