Sadly I would not trust those Chinese chips. This is where 99% of counterfeit chips come from and often they either are sub-par to original specs or they don't

Sadly I would not trust those Chinese chips. This is where 99% of counterfeit chips come from and often they either are sub-par to original specs or they don't function at all. We have a similar situation - 13 month lead times. In one case we were able to substitute a $1 part for a $150 military version. The other situation can't be fixed so easily: Xilinx FPGAs. Each unit of our product has 120 of them and we are building dozens just for orders this year. We've already had our assembly house lose $10K of parts through employee theft as well. They still don't know "how it happened" but honestly only a handful of people would know they were valuable and know how to fence them! Probably not minimum wage employees to be honest. It probably is an angle to the war. That and shutting down low-tech supply chains for routine things like TP - just so people know, the dominant standard supply chain for paper products is to use US/Canadian and Malay/Indonesian or Brazilian (tropical) wood chips, shipping these to China to make raw paper rolls, then bringing it back to the US to be cut into TP et al. It's easy to disrupt things without even shutting down the supply chain - MOST JIT (just-in-time) supply chains (which are 99% of all supply chains today) are tuned to accept no more than 5%-10% volume variance so you can shut down supply chains by forcing the variance to 20%-30% without even going to 100% off. This is part of what happened to TP in 2000; the other part was the fact that commercial and residential TP supply chains can not be mutually substituted - BY LAW.