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Since January of this year, I have been waiting for a certain MCU (STM32F042K6T6) to be available but still no luck. I get the bigger picture now: there's a sho
by cossray 5y ago
Since January of this year, I have been waiting for a certain MCU (STM32F042K6T6) to be available but still no luck. I get the bigger picture now: there's a shortage at the source. I have to move fast and secure a stock of the rest of the ICs, otherwise this supply-chain issue can be disastrous to small hardware companies.
- cushychicken 5y agoI'm convinced that, if in-person IEEE meetups were still a thing right now, you could drop a tray of ST Micro chips in the middle of the meeting and watch it devolve into a fistfight in seconds. The chip shortage right now is rough.
- joezydeco 5y agoWe need thousands, and we need them in humidity-sealed trays. A handful thrown on a table isn't enough.
- teclordphrack2 5y ago+1 for having to be sealed. We have a handful of companies wanting to sell us needed chips but they are odds and ends, not always packaged. Were always suspect.