If you’re in the market for a new car, a major appliance, or countless other items, you know a semiconductor shortage is delaying delivery. What’s it going to take to get everything back up to speed and running efficiently? For one thing, time. Semiconductor fabrication plants, also known as fabs, changed course when the pandemic hit. Now, they have to undo some of those alterations, and that’s not going to happen overnight. Meanwhile, the U.S. must figure out its own place in the semiconductor universe.