Parent was speaking of the chip shortage in general, which goes way past cars. Car manufacturers will do what they can to isolate themselves from the open market (and buy the numbers and have the political backing to do so), but demand for non-car parts affects allocation of production capacity to their demands too.

> designed to go in to Toyota cars?

Chips rarely are designed for a specific car, and a car will also contain quite a few that are not strictly specific to automotive.