and some companies will even die if they can't get the components they need, he agreed, in a televised interview with Ningguan Chen of Taiwanese broadcaster Next TV. While the interview's entirely in Chinese, friends of The Verge stepped forward to confirm parts of a machine-translated summary that's been making headlines. They also note, importantly, that it's the interviewer asking whether companies might shut down or product lines might discontinue. Khein-Seng largely just agreed and clarified that it'll happen if these companies cannot secure enough RAM.