Chip-makers Said They Will Meet Chip Data Request Amid Global Supply Crisis: Commerce Dept.

A researcher plants a semiconductor chip on an interface board, at the Tsinghua Unigroup research center in Beijing on Feb. 29, 2016. Kim Kyung-Hoon/Reuters

Companies including Intel, GM, Infineon, and SK Hynix have signaled they will cooperate with a voluntary request for data on the global chips crisis, the U.S. Department of Commerce said on Thursday.

The Department noted that while the data request is currently voluntary, it may make it compulsory depending on the number and quality of responses.