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> by the time they finish the changes, the part they redesigned for is also out of stock One of the things my last employer did to get around availability prob
by HeyLaughingBoy 5y ago
> by the time they finish the changes, the part they redesigned for is also out of stock
One of the things my last employer did to get around availability problems was to buy a vendor's entire supply of a chip we could use and then redesigning the product to use it. IIRC, the supply was projected to be enough to last a year. Hopefully, a year from now it will have proven to be a good decision :-)
It's crazy out there!
- spfzero 5y agoSimilarly, my company just redesigned a product after running out of an IC that's been on order for many months, still without an estimate on delivery by the distributor. We redesigned it to use another chip we had in-house, intended for another product, but that product sells for much less and is in less demand, so... We initially thought we could move pins around in firmware, and the parts have the same footprint, so it seemed possible, but they were different enough that we had to rev the PCB. Now we're waiting for PCBs and crossing our fingers that they will test out.
- photojosh 5y agoUm, I just did the same thing the GP did (buy up all the stock) for a product in development but one of our older products is getting hit by the same issue described by the parent!