| Marth said: Production shipment is a shipment from chip production to device assembly. |
No, this is shipping components. You are a little confused here (and there and everywhere...)
Production shipment is shipping the product. Where and when and why the components are produced and shipped is privvy to the manufacturer of the product, not the manufacturers of the components.
Nowadays, everyone tries to follow the "Just in time" philosophy. This means components are shipped to the assembly plant when they are needed (this saves a lot of expensive storage costs). The downside of this philosophy is that it can stall your entire production (we have seen that a few years ago when an earthquake/flood in Malaysia stopped/seriously limited the supply of hds to the console assemblers).
As for that Bloomberg bullshit article, I told it early in this (and in another thread) that it is bullshit.
