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It's weird that you can buy chips on Chinese sites in their thousands and western usual suppliers have no stock and the lead times are more than a year on some
by varispeed 6y ago
It's weird that you can buy chips on Chinese sites in their thousands and western usual suppliers have no stock and the lead times are more than a year on some parts.
Unfortunately you cannot just buy these Chinese parts and use in the products as they will likely have no certification or may even be fake. At least can be useful for prototyping although risky as well.
I know many projects are on hold because of that.
- salawat 6y agoThis is the legacy of offshoring most production. We've lost the ability to drive our own supply chains based on nowhere for talent to work or land. Once you lose that as a nation, the tail wags the dog.
- dcolkitt 6y agoHow hard would it be to fly an engineer to Shenzen and physically test the supply? I get it. Chinese vendors are not as reliable as Western suppliers. But it's not like ICs are black magic, it certainly wouldn't be that to enforce third-party quality control on them. Sure every now and then you'll pay for a batch you gotta throw out. But that sure as hell beats business killing 52-week lead times.