
TOKYO -- In a sign that the global supply of chips for the auto industry is improving after months of shortages, inventories have risen for the first time in nine months at leading suppliers, Nikkei has learned.
Inventories were up in value terms at the end of September at Japan's Renesas Electronics, Dutch supplier NXP Semiconductors, Germany's Infineon Technologies, Switzerland-based STMicroelectronics and U.S.-based Texas Instruments.