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BERLIN : Semiconductor shortages that have created bottlenecks for Germany's car industry will take years to resolve despite chipmakers' plans to build factories in the country, a senior Audi manager was quoted as saying on Friday. Executives and policymakers are re-thinking supply lines and trying to reduce reliance on a handful of Asian and U.S. chip suppliers. Berlin has been courting the world's largest contract chipmakers with billions of euros in subsidies. Chipmakers such as U.S. Intel and Taiwan's TSMC this year announced plans to build factories in Germany. It's about billions of dollars are being invested," Renate Vachenauer, head of procurement at Volkswagen-owned Audi, was quoted as saying by Augsburger Allgemeine newspaper.