https://www.reuters.com/article/us-chips-shortage/japan-urges-support-for-fire-hit-renesas-as-global-chip-woes-deepen-idUSKBN2BG16R

Japan has called on equipment makers to help one of its biggest chipmakers restore production, the latest government move aimed at easing a semiconductor shortage that has hit production at car companies and is now pressuring makers of electronic devices.