The chip shortage is real. Where I work is looking at 52 week lead times and there are zero parts available from distributors. Can't build products. Looking at changing design because of parts availability but it turns out none of the alternatives are available either. It looks like all the parts have been bought up by brokers.
I think in the case of our problems, the silicon was made but blocked at the packager for wire bonding etc. I believe the packager is in China proper.
My theory was that CCP ordered Chinese companies to fuck over Western companies and give priority to internal industries, in an effort to hamstring us industry and military resupply, and capture market share.
The chip shortage is real. Where I work is looking at 52 week lead times and there are zero parts available from distributors. Can't build products. Looking at changing design because of parts availability but it turns out none of the alternatives are available either. It looks like all the parts have been bought up by brokers.
It's real all right. We had to create 5 alternate designs to work around it, and we are not out of the woods yet. But they question is, why?
I think in the case of our problems, the silicon was made but blocked at the packager for wire bonding etc. I believe the packager is in China proper.
My theory was that CCP ordered Chinese companies to fuck over Western companies and give priority to internal industries, in an effort to hamstring us industry and military resupply, and capture market share.