How the global chip shortage might affect people who just want to wash their dogs

Even some chip companies are suffering from the chip shortage. Innovium is a 200-person start-up in San Jose, Calif., that designs, but doesn’t manufacture, semiconductors for use in data centers. It contracts the manufacturing out to companies in Asia, which are so overloaded that Innovium has faced delays delivering its chips to customers, Chief Executive Rajiv Khemani said in interview.