Michael Dell, the billionaire founder and chief executive of one of the world’s biggest computing groups, is “intently focused” on buying components from outside China due to growing concern over supply-chain disruptions.
Speaking to the Financial Times, Dell said customers of his eponymous company are asking it to diversify where it sources components. That push comes at a time of rising tension between Washington and Beijing and after the Covid-19 pandemic exposed vulnerabilities to disruption in the production of semiconductors.
“We want to ensure the ongoing availability of products and so having a more resilient supply chain is incredibly important given the nature of the world that we live in today,” said Dell.