So far in 2021, the high profile impact of the global semiconductor shortages has mainly been visible in the devices business (hence Apple’s reduction of its holiday quarter shipments forecast) and in automotive. Mobile infrastructure, which requires smaller numbers of chips, has been less dramatically affected, but the CEOs of Nokia and Ericsson have both warned that it will create challenges in 2022, and this wariness is confirmed by a new forecast. Dell’Oro, the telecoms network analysts and forecasters, said that chip shortages were only just starting to affect mobile networks, but they would radically reduce the growth in this sector in 2022. So far, the report says, the global RAN business has been affected but “not derailed” by the…