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Federal Register / Vol. 86, No. 183 / Friday, September 24, 2021 / Notices
identify the product attributes, sales in the past month, and location of fabrication and package/assembly.
i. List each products top three current customers and the estimated percentage of that products sales accounted for by each customer.
e. For each phase of the production process, identify whether your organization carries out the step internally or externally. For your Written Comments organizations top semiconductor Interested parties are invited to products, estimate each products a submit written comments, data, 2019 lead time and b current lead time analyses, or information pertinent to in days, both overall and for each this request to BISs Office of phase of the production process.
Technology Evaluation no later than Provide an explanation of any current November 8, 2021.
delays or bottlenecks.
While the Department invites input f. For your organizations top from all interested parties, it is semiconductor products, list each particularly interested in obtaining products typical and current inventory information from foreign and domestic in days, for finished product, inentities that actively participate in the progress product, and inbound product.
semiconductor product supply chain at Provide an explanation for any changes any level e.g., semiconductor design, in inventory practices.
front end semiconductor wafer g. What are the primary disruptions or fabrication, semiconductor assembly bottlenecks that have affected your test and packaging, microelectronics ability to provide products to customers assembly, intermediate and end-users of in the last year?
semiconductors and microelectronics, h. What is your organizations bookdistributors of such products, as well as to-bill ratio for the past three years?
entities supporting semiconductor and Explain any changes.
i. If the demand for your products microelectronics manufacturing as exceeds your capacity, what is the providers of materials and equipment.
primary method by which your To allow for aggregation and organization allocates the available comparison of data from multiple respondents, the Department has posted supply?
j. Does your organization have a fillable form on the BIS website that commenters must download and fill out available capacity? If yes, what is preventing the filling of that capacity?
for submission to https
k. Is your organization considering www.regulations.gov. See the ADDRESSES
increasing its capacity? If yes, in what section of this notice for where to find ways, over what timeframe, and what the fillable forms.
impediments exist to such an increase?
The Department is specifically What factors does your organization seeking the following information and consider when evaluating whether to data:
1. For semiconductor product design, increase capacity?
l. Has your organization changed its front and back-end manufacturers and material and/or equipment purchasing microelectronics assemblers, and their levels or practices in the past three suppliers and distributors:
a. Identify your companys role in the years?
m. What single change and to which semiconductor product supply chain.
b. Indicate the technology nodes in portion of the supply chain would most nanometers, semiconductor material significantly increase your ability to types, and device types that this supply semiconductor products in the organization is capable of providing next six months?
2. Questions for intermediate users design and/or manufacture.
c. For any integrated circuits you and end users of semiconductor producewhether fabricated at your products or integrated circuits:
own facilities or elsewhereidentify the a. Identify your type of business and primary integrated circuit type, product the types of products you sell.
b. What are the general applications type, relevant technology nodes in nanometers, and actuals or estimates of for the semiconductor products and integrated circuits that you purchase?
annual sales for the years 2019, 2020, c. For the semiconductor products and 2021 based on anticipated end use.
that your organization purchases, d. For the semiconductor products identify those that present the greatest that your organization sells, identify challenge for your organization to those with the largest order backlog.
acquire. Then for each product, identify Then for the total and for each product, product intermediate and end-users to the questions set forth in this notice.
Information submitted in response to this request may contain business proprietary information, which will not be published and will be protected from disclosure, provided the submitters follow the instructions below for submitting confidential business information in the public comments.

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the product attributes and purchases in 2019 and 2021, as well as average monthly orders in 2021. Then estimate the quantity of each product your organization would purchase in the next six months barring any production constraints as well as the amount your organization expects to actually be able to purchase. For each of your organizations top semiconductor products, estimate each products lead times and your organizations inventory for a 2019 and b currently in days.
Provide an explanation of any current delays or bottlenecks.
d. What are the primary disruptions or bottlenecks that have affected your ability to provide products to customers in the last year?
e. Is your organization limiting production due to lack of available semiconductors? Explain.
f. What percentage of your current production has your organization had to defer, delay, reject, or suspend in the past year? Explain.
g. Is your organization considering or carrying out new investments to mitigate semiconductor sourcing difficulties? Explain.
h. What semiconductor product types are most in short supply and by what estimated percentage relative to your demand? What is your view of the root cause?
i. Has your organization changed its material and/or equipment purchasing levels or practices in the past three years?
j. What single change and to which portion of the supply chain would most significantly increase your ability to purchase semiconductors in the next six months?
k. What percentage of your orders are fulfilled by distributors versus through direct purchase orders to semiconductor product manufacturers?
l. For the semiconductor products your organization purchases, how long in months are the typical purchase commitments? How, if at all, do your organizations purchase commitments differ for products in short supply?
m. Has your organization faced decommits defined as a notification from a supplier that expected or committed supply will not be delivered in the agreed-upon time and quantity in recent months? If this is a significant issue, please explain e.g., nature of product, supplier, impact.
Requirements for Written Comments The https www.regulations.gov website allows users to provide comments by filling in a Type Comment field, or by attaching a document using an Upload File field.

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